Eastern Airlines, Inc. v. Floyd’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
215 federal appellate · 64 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 665 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably El Al Israel Airlines, Ltd. v. Tsui Yuan Tseng (1999), McCarthy v. Northwest Airlines, Inc. (1995)
215 federal appellate · 64 district · 36 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Reiter v. Sonotone Corp. · Air France v. Saks · Volkswagenwerk Aktiengesellschaft v. Schlunk · Mobil Oil Exploration & Producing Southeast, Inc. v. United Distribution Cos. · Société Nationale Industrielle Aérospatiale v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa
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 665 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The carrier shall be liable for damage sustained in the event of the death or wounding of a passenger or any other bodily injury suffered by a passenger, if the accident which caused the damage so sustained took place on board the aircraft or in the course of any of the operations of embarking or disembarking.”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“begin[s] with the text of the treaty and the context in which the written words are used.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage“an air carrier cannot be held liable under Article 17 when an accident has not caused a passenger to suffer death, physical injury, or physical manifestation of injury.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.