Chira v. Lockheed Aircraft Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
634 F.2d 664 · 1980
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Lyell Theatre Corp. v. Loews Corp. (1982), Securities & Exchange Commission v. McNulty (1998)
34 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on Link v. Wabash Railroad · Societe Internationale Pour Participations Industrielles Et Commerciales, S. A. v. Rogers · Washington v. Washington State Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel Ass'n · Costello v. United States · Shoup Voting Machine Corp. v. Datamedia Computer Service, 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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he remedy is pungent, rarely used and conclusive. A district judge should employ it only when he is sure of the impotence of lesser sanction.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“cannot now avoid the consequences of the acts or omissions of this freely selected agent”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“fraud, breach of contract, wrongful discharge, tortious interference with career opportunities, defamation of his professional reputation, harassment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and job discrimination on the basis of age (Chira was 45), marital status (he is single), ethnic background (he is of Arab descent), and medical condition. Chira v. Lockheed Aircraft Corp., 634 F.2d 664, 666 (2d Cir.1980) (Kaufman, J.).”
1 later decision 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.