Robertson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
352 F.2d 539 · 1965
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2011
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. § 2501
Relies on 171 F. Supp. 283 - Matson v. United States · 161 F. Supp. 597 - Highland Park, Inc. v. United States · Wilson v. United States · Highland Park Inc. v. United States · Matson v. United States
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiffs point to these clearance easements and argue that the Government’s action in obtaining them indicated its intention to lower the flight angle and thus to fly its planes over plaintiffs’ property at lower altitudes. Plaintiffs’ conclusion does not necessarily follow, there being a distinction between the altitudes delineated by the clearance easement and the flight angle normally used. The clearance easement (sometimes called the glide angle) is not the angle at which planes normally approach the runway, but is the lowest possible angle at which aircraft can fly in approaching the runway; it is the minimum angle of approach consistent with any degree of safety. The difference between the minimum glide angle described in the clearance easement and the normal glide slope can be attributed to a safety margin designed to provide for emergencies.”
3 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.