Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. Civil Aeronautics Board’s Empirical Analysis
280 F.2d 636 · 1960
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 1984 · most notably Richard A. Williams and Alfred S. Trask v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission, D.C. Transit System, Inc., Intervenor. Democratic Central Committee of the District of Columbia, Leonard N. Bebchick and Daniel W. Gottlieb v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission, D.C. Transit System, Inc., Intervenor. D.C. Transit System, Inc. v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission (1969), Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Civil Aeronautics Board (1967)
21 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
Relies on Sprage v. Ticonic Nat Bank · Federal Communications Commission v. Pottsville Broadcasting Co. · St. Joseph Stock Yards Co. v. United States · Arizona Grocery Co. v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · Western Air Lines, Inc. v. Civil Aeronautics Board
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the need of each such air carrier for compensation”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.