Western Air Lines, Inc. v. Civil Aeronautics Board’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
147 federal appellate · 16 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 214 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2014 · most notably United States v. Sepulveda (1993), Gutierrez-Rodriguez v. Cartagena (1989)
147 federal appellate · 16 district · 19 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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
reviewedSummerfield v. Civil Aeronautics Board (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Dalehite v. United States · Summerfield 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 214 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) The Board is empowered * * * to fix and determine * * * the fair and reasonable rates of compensation for the transportation of mail * * *. (b) In fixing and determining fair and reasonable rates of compensation under this section * * * the Board shall take into consideration, among other factors * * * nee¿ 0f each such air carrier * * * for compensation for the transportation of mail sufficient to insure the performance of such service, and, together with all other revenue of the air carrier, to enable such air carrier under honest, economical, and efficient management, to maintain and continue the development of air transportation to the extent and of the character and quality required for the commerce of the United States, the Postal Service, and the national defense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is that the Board, in concluding that a part of the profits from the sale to United should not be used as an offset, forsook the standard of `need' and adopted a different one.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Act, however, speaks of `the need' of the carrier for the subsidy, not the effect of a policy on carriers in general”
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.