Canadian Aviator, Ltd. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
324 U.S. 215 · 1945
Citation profile
188 federal appellate · 46 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 438 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably United States v. Nordic Village, Inc. (1992), Ruckelshaus v. Sierra Club (1983)
188 federal appellate · 46 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
reviewedCanadian Aviator v. United States (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Sherwood · The Osceola · Eastern Transportation Co. v. United States · The John G. Stevens
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 438 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In cases where if such vessel were privately owned or operated ... a proceeding in admiralty could be maintained, any ... proceeding in personam may be brought against the United States.... Such suits shall be brought in the district court of the United States....”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“we think Congressional adoption of broad statutory language authorizing suit was deliberate and is not to be thwarted by an unduly restrictive interpretation”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“insofar as the same are not inconsistent”
4 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.