Laughlin v. Riddle Aviation Co.’s Empirical Analysis
205 F.2d 948 · 1953
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 1983
5 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 77A (§ 1 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956) · 45 U.S.C. § 1
Relies on William Marbury v. James Madison · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Rigsby · Deckert v. Independence Shares Corp. · De Lima v. Bidwell · Peck v. Jenness
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * In prescribing the rates of compensation to be paid to and received by pilots, Congress did not intend to create a mere illusory right, which would fail for lack of means to enforce it. * * * ” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.