Wickwire v. Arctic Circle Air Services’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2015
1 federal appellate · 8 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 Zeman v. Lufthansa German Airlines · Holiday Inns of America, Inc. v. Peck · Stordahl v. Government Employees Insurance Co. · City of Whittier v. Whittier Fuel & Marine Corp. · Mullen v. Christiansen
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'To make out a prima facie case of negligence, Wickwire needed to present evidence on each of the following elements: duty, breach of that duty, proximate cause and damages.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Elvidence of negligence in inspecting one plane is not admissible as proof of negligence in inspecting another plane.”
1 later decision 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.