Nolan v. Boeing Co.’s Empirical Analysis

1990

Citation profile

cited by 18 later decisions

February 2011

most recently cited

6 federal appellate ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2011

6 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

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1448

Relies on Burger King Corporation v. Rudzewicz · Helicopteros Nacionales De Colombia, S. A. v. Hall · Inc v. Miller Brewing Company · Product Promotions, Inc. v. Cousteau · Wells Fargo & Co. v. Wells Fargo Express Co.

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.

“General agency exists when the putative agent carries on substantial activities for the benefit of the principal. In other words, in the context of this case, a general agent is one who performs duties which are sufficiently necessary to the corporation's operations. The services performed by the agent must be so important to the corporate principal that if it did not have the stand-in to perform them, the corporation's own people would do it themselves. Such an agent must have broad executive responsibilities, and the relationship must reflect a degree of continuity. Id.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Pate v. American International Specialty Lines Insurance · 767 F. Supp. 2d 649 - In Re Chinese Manufactured Drywall Products Liab.
“plaintiff must establish a general agency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 767 F. Supp. 2d 649 - In Re Chinese Manufactured Drywall Products Liab.

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.