Med-Trans Corp. v. Benton’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2021
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 49 U.S.C. § 40101 (Air Traffic Management System Performance Improvement Act of 1996) · 49 U.S.C. § 40102 · 49 U.S.C. § 41101 · 49 U.S.C. § 41713
Relies on Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · Cannon v. University of Chicago · Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp. · Morales v. Trans World Airlines, 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The mere fact that [an air ambulance company] does not collect tickets at the boarding gate does not mean that it is not a common carrier as required by the federal statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a citizen of the United States undertaking by any means, directly or indirectly, to provide air transportation,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“foreign air transportation, interstate air transportation, or the transportation of mail by aircraft.”
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.