Federal Express Corporation v. State of Rhode Island, Department of Transportation, Airports Division, Federal Express Corporation v. State of Rhode Island, Department of Transportation, Airports Division, and the United States of America’s Empirical Analysis
664 F.2d 830 · 1981
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2016
9 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 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 United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Rodriguez v. United States · Florida Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services v. Florida Nursing Home Ass'n · Miller v. United States · American Airlines, Inc. v. United States
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“slight deviations from manual procedure do not necessarily constitute negligence ....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although slight deviations from manual procedures do not necessarily constitute negligence, we have previously indicated that 'a substantial and unjustified failure to follow procedures made mandatory by the Manual is persuasive as an indication of a lack of due care.’ The Rhode Island courts have embraced a similar position, holding that in an action based on violation of a statute or ordinance, 'evidence of injury proximately caused by the violation is prima facie evidence of defendant's liability ....’”
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.