All American Airways, Inc. v. Elderd’s Empirical Analysis
209 F.2d 247 · 1954
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1977 · most notably Snyder v. Harris (1969), Nagler v. Admiral Corp. (1957)
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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
Relies on Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · United States v. Causby · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · National Labor Relations Board v. Gamble Enterprises, Inc. · Englert v. S. Birch & Sons Construction Co.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Joinder of the parties is neither necessary nor indispensable. The spurious class action is a permissive joinder device. Even before the adoption of the rules, the Texas Courts had allowed a spurious class action. Such an action stands as an invitation to others affected to join in the battle and an admonition to the Court to proceed with proper circumspection in creating a precedent which may actually affect non-parties, even if not legally res judicata as to them. Beyond this * * * it can not make the case of the claimed representative stronger, or give them rights they would not have of their own strength, or affect legally the rights or obligations of those who do not intervene.””
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.