Arnold IV v. Eastern Air Lines Inc’s Empirical Analysis
712 F.2d 899 · 1983
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Johnson v. Celotex Corp. (1990), Lewis v. University of Pittsburgh (1983)
18 federal appellate · 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 Pullman-Standard v. Swint · Zahn v. International Paper Co. · Thiel v. Southern Pacific Co. · Grunenthal v. Long Island Rail Road · Dothard v. Rawlinson
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is out of service insofar as that particular case is concerned. To disqualify means to debar legally. That is synonymous with lack of legal capacity, i.e., with inability to serve.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[WJhether the specific risks of prejudice and possible confusion [are] overborne by the risk of inconsistent adjudications of common factual and legal issues, the burden on parties, witnesses, and available judicial resources posed by multiple lawsuits, the length of time required to conclude multiple suits as against a single one, and the relative expense to all concerned of the single-trial, multiple-trial alternatives.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[T]he logic is badly frayed inasmuch as it is assumed that a recused judge would vote on whether a case should be heard or reheard en banc even though disqualified from voting on the merits. The Fourth Circuit has simply not operated in that fashion, and we do not perceive how a disqualified judge could do so without infringing the rule that he should take no action which would possibly affect the outcome of a case. To count as a vote his non-vote might well be decisive as to whether the case would be reheard.”
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.