British Airways Board v. Port Authority of New York’s Empirical Analysis
558 F.2d 75 · 1977
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably 26 Cal. 3d 86 - Greater Westchester Homeowners Ass'n v. City of Los Angeles (1979), Hughes v. Whitmer (1983)
36 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 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.
Relationships
Relies on Singleton v. Wulff · Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul · Hormel v. Helvering · United States v. Radio Television News Directors Ass'n · Huron Portland Cement Company v. City of Detroit Michigan
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'permissible level of noise which can be created by aircraft using the airport.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he likelihood of multiple, inconsistent rules would be a dagger pointed at the heart of commerce--and the rule applied might come literally to depend on which way the wind was blowing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“is vested only with the power to promulgate reasonable, nonarbitrary and non-discriminatory regulations that establish acceptable noise levels for the airport and its immediate environs”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.