Federal Aviation Administration v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
566 U.S. 284 · 2012
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 10 district · 10 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1681N · 15 U.S.C. § 78B (§ 2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 17 U.S.C. § 1009 · 17 U.S.C. § 101 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 2318 · 28 U.S.C. § 2674 · 42 U.S.C. § 3612 (§ 812 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968))
Relies on Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Carey v. Piphus · Morissette v. United States · Irwin v. Department of Veterans Affairs · Robinson v. Shell Oil Co.
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen Congress employs a term of art, it presumably knows and adopts the cluster of ideas that were attached to each borrowed word in the body of learning from which it was taken.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Ambiguity exists if there is a plausible interpretation of the statute that would not authorize money damages against the Government.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'is a tool for interpreting the law' and . . . it does not 'displac[e] the other traditional tools of statutory construction.'”
2 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.