29 F. Supp. 412 - Noakes v. Imperial Airways, Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1988
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 1 U.S.C. § 3
Relies on Claim of Reinhardt v. Newport Flying Service Corp. · Foss v. Crawford Bros. No. 2 · United States v. Northwest Air Service, Inc. · 27 F. Supp. 487 - Dollins v. Pan-American Grace Airways, Inc.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The primary purpose and function of the Cavalier was to travel through the air. It was practically incapable of being used as a means of transportation on water, although its construction enabled it to embark on its journey from the sea and to alight on the water when it had reached its destination, but this was purely incidental to its flight through the air. It does not appear that it ever functioned as a ‘vessel’. “There is nothing in the Civil Aeronautics Act, 49 U.S.C.A. § 401 et seq., or in its definition ‘aircraft’ as a contrivance used or designed for navigating through the air, to suggest that Congress had ever intended that the word ‘vessel’ in 1 U.S.C.A. § 3 , when applied to craft adapted for transportation through navigable water also included aircraft.””
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.