Cali v. Eastern Airlines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
442 F.2d 65 · 1971
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently December 1996 · most notably Heyman v. Commerce & Industry Insurance (1975), Mary Elizabeth Foy Donnelly v. H. Gibson Guion (1972)
32 federal appellate · 8 district ·
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 35 U.S.C. § 102
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · United States v. Diebold, Inc. · Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. · White Motor Company v. United States · Elizabeth v. Pavement Co.
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If undisputed evidentiary facts disclose competing material inferences as to which reasonable minds might disagree, the motion must be denied . .. “This admonition should especially be kept in mind when the inferences which the parties seek to have drawn deal with questions of motive, intent, and subjective feelings and reactions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“absence of any control by Cali, or any attempt to impose control, should not be elevated to the status of a per se test under the circumstances disclosed here and in the posture in which we receive this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“undisputed evidentiary facts disclose competing material inferences as to which reasonable minds might disagree”
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.