Ferguson v. National Transportation Safety Board’s Empirical Analysis
678 F.2d 821 · 1982
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2016
16 federal appellate ·
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 Udall v. Tallman · Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co. · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Stanisic · Sierra Pacific Power Co. v. United States Environmental Protection Agency
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o person may operate an aircraft in a careless or reckless manner so as to endanger the life or property of another.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] person who turns suddenly and spills a cup of coffee has acted inadvertently. On the other hand, a person who places a coffee cup precariously on the edge of a table has engaged in purposeful behavior. Even though the person may not deliberately intend the coffee to spill, the conduct is not inadvertent because it involves a purposeful choice between two acts — placing the cup on the edge of the table or balancing it so that it will not spill. Likewise, a pilot acts inadvertently when he flies at an incorrect altitude because he misreads his instruments. But his actions are not inadvertent if he engages in the same conduct because he chooses not to consult his instruments to verify his altitude. 27”
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.