Petrire v. Spantax, S.A.’s Empirical Analysis
756 F.2d 263 · 1985
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2005 · most notably Klos v. Polskie Linie Lotnicze (1997), Sopcak v. Northern Mountain Helicopter Service (1995)
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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 Songy v. Godchaux Sugars, Inc. · Alitalia-Linee Aeree Italiane, S. P. A. v. Lisi · Smith v. Canadian Pacific Airways, Ltd. · Lisi v. Alitalia-Linee Aeree Italiane, S. p. A. · Grey v. American Airlines, Inc.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Transportation to be performed by several successive air carriers shall be deemed, for the purposes of this convention, to be one undivided transportation, if it has been regarded by the parties as a single operation, whether it has been agreed upon under the form of a single contract or a series of contracts....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“two ticket booklets[which] were issued sequentially at the same time and the same place for round-trip travel to be interrupted by no more than a five-day stopover”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`destination' is to be determined from the contract for transportation”
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.