Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. v. City of Cleveland’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
809 federal appellate · 235 district · 222 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,317 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2023 · most notably East River Steamship Corp. v. Transamerica Delaval Inc. (1986), Finley v. United States (1989)
809 federal appellate · 235 district · 222 state decisions — followed in 19 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
reviewedExecutive Jet Aviation, Inc., and Executive Jet Sales, Inc. v. City of Cleveland, Ohio and Phillip A. Schwenz, and Third-Party Howard E. Dicken v. United States of America, Third-Party (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 7 · 28 U.S.C. § 1333 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 33 U.S.C. § 901
Relies on Rodrigue v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · Healy Nh v. Ratta · Gutierrez v. Waterman Steamship Corp. · Chelentis v. Luckenbach Steamship Co.
Cited together with Foremost Insurance v. Richardson · Sisson v. Ruby · Jerome Grubart Inc v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company City of Chicago · Victory Carriers, Inc. v. Law · Moragne v. States Marine Lines, 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 2,317 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“bear a significant relationship to traditional maritime activity.”
55 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The law of admiralty has evolved over many centuries, designed and molded to handle problems of vessels relegated to ply the waterways of the world, beyond whose shores they cannot go. That law deals with navigational rules — rules that govern the manner and direction those vessels may rightly move upon the waters. When a collision occurs or a ship founders at sea, the law of admiralty looks to those rules to determine fault, liability, and all other questions that may arise from such a catastrophe. Through long experience, the law of the sea knows how to determine whether a particular ship is seaworthy, and it knows the nature of maintenance and cure. It is concerned with maritime liens, the general average, captures and prizes, limitation of liability, cargo damage, and claims for salvage.”
41 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“significant relationship to traditional maritime activity.”
32 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.