United States v. Peoples’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 1 U.S.C. § 3
Relies on McBoyle v. United States · Claim of Reinhardt v. Newport Flying Service Corp. · 29 F. Supp. 412 - Noakes v. Imperial Airways, Ltd. · United States v. Northwest Air Service, Inc. · 27 F. Supp. 487 - Dollins v. Pan-American Grace Airways, 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The navigation and shipping laws of the United States, including any definition of `vessel' or `vehicle' found therein and including the rules for the prevention of collisions, shall not be construed to apply to seaplanes or other aircraft or to the navigation of vessels in relation to seaplanes or other aircraft.”
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.