Nolan v. Transocean Air Lines’s Empirical Analysis
276 F.2d 280 · 1960
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2016 · most notably Rogers v. Grimaldi (1989), Clarkson Co. v. Shaheen (1976)
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Mecom v. Fitzsimmons Drilling Co. · McKnett v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co. · 45 Cal. 2d 421 - Emery v. Emery · Canadian Northern Railway Co. v. Eggen · 39 Cal. 2d 622 - Flores v. Brown
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“determin(ing) what the (Illinois) courts would think the (Kuwaiti) courts would think on an issue about which neither has thought.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is satisfied if the nonresident is given access to the courts of the state upon terms which in themselves are reasonable and adequate for the enforcing of any rights he may have, even though they may not be technically and precisely the same in extent as those accorded to resident citizens.”
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.