Cassis v. Helms’s Empirical Analysis
737 F.2d 545 · 1984
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2017
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 CPC International Inc. v. Dimmitt Agri Industries, Inc. · Emporium Capwell Co. v. Western Addition Community Organization · Hart v. McLucas · United States v. Lazaros
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“had the natural tendency to influence, or [was] capable of influencing”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the logbook in question is a permanent and cumulative record of the appellant’s flight experience, [and] may be consulted when Cassis seeks to demonstrate compliance with other FAA flight experience requirements. The FAA, of course, is charged with promoting aviation safety. The FAA cannot meet this responsibility unless pilot logbooks are free of knowing misrepresentations of fact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the false entries were capable of influencing the ultimate decision about whether [the pilot] had 1500 hours of flight experience.”
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.