Boardman v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
376 F.2d 895 · 1967
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2011
1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2501
Relies on United States v. Causby · Jensen v. United States · Bacon v. United States · Bacon 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he nature and degree of the disturbance to private property rights in approach zones below the line of flight [was] substantially worsened and rendered intolerable by the use of aircraft which, because of their size, power, noise, altitude and flight characteristics, or because of structural changes in the airport layout, impose[d] a greater degree of interference in the enjoyment of property over which they pass en route to or from their operating runways than the conditions which previously inhered____”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It may be true as the plaintiffs have averred that they were unaware of the extent and nature of the overflights until 1960, or that they did not know in 1955 that the runway channeling planes over their property had been extended so as to aggravate the problem, but the flight facts were readily apparent to anyone who took the trouble to see or to inquire, and the plaintiffs’ professed ignorance of them was their own fault, as was their failure to learn prior to purchasing the property the readily ascertainable facts concerning expansion of the air station’s program.”
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.