United States v. Schultetus’s Empirical Analysis
277 F.2d 322 · 1960
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably United Air Lines, Inc. v. Wiener (1964), Zabala Clemente v. United States (1977)
56 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 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 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act)
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Crooker v. California · Sanders v. Leech · Allegheny Airlines, Inc., Civil Aeronautics Board and Administrator of Civil Aeronautics, Intervenors-Appellees v. Village of Cedarhurst
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It seems apparent that the district court had an erroneous concept of the functions and duties of the operators of the control tower * * * [t]he theory followed by the district court would place upon the operators of control towers the primary responsibility for the operation of the aircraft at the field. Governmental regulations, having the force of law, have assigned this responsibility to the operators of aircraft.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[l]iability growing out of the operation of aircraft is to be determined by the ordinary rules of negligence and due care.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to the opportunity of the trial court to judge of the credibility of the witnesses.”
2 later decisions 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.