Zicherman v. Korean Air Lines Co Ltd Korean Air Lines Co’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
157 federal appellate · 42 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 466 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably Medellin v. Texas (2008), El Al Israel Airlines, Ltd. v. Tsui Yuan Tseng (1999)
157 federal appellate · 42 district · 16 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 Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1117 (§ 35 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act))
Relies on Romero v. International Terminal Operating Co. · United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. v. City of Cleveland · Miles v. Apex Marine Corp. · Offshore Logistics, Inc. v. Tallentire
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 466 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“without prejudice to the questions as to who are the persons who have the right to bring suit and what are their respective rights.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage“empower us to develop some common-law rule — under cover of general admiralty law or otherwise — that will supersede the normal federal disposition.” The Court held that the Convention”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for the exclusive benefit of the decedent's wife, husband, parent, child, or dependent relative.”
4 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.