El Al Israel Airlines, Ltd. v. Tsui Yuan Tseng’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
200 federal appellate · 86 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 731 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Medellin v. Texas (2008), Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon (2006)
200 federal appellate · 86 district · 57 state decisions — followed in 13 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
reviewedTsui Yuan Tseng v. El Al Israel Airlines, Ltd. (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 49 U.S.C. § 40105
Relies on Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp. · Medtronic, Inc. v. Lohr · CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Easterwood · Air France v. Saks · Sumitomo Shoji America, Inc. v. Avagliano
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 731 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“(1) In the cases covered by articles 18 and 19 any action for damages, however founded, can only be brought subject to the conditions and limits set out in this convention. (2) In the cases covered by article 17 the provisions of the preceding paragraph shall also apply, without prejudice to the questions as to who are the persons who have the right to bring suit and what are their respective rights.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[R]ecovery for a personal injury suffered `on board [an] aircraft or in the course of any of the operations of embarking or disembarking,' if not allowed under the Convention, is not available at all.”
10 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.