Winbourne v. Eastern Airlines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
758 F.2d 1016 · 1984
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Thompkins v. Belt (1987), Johnson v. Offshore Express, Inc. (1988)
22 federal appellate · 1 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 341 So. 2d 332 - Coco v. Winston Industries, Inc. · Caldarera v. Eastern Airlines, Inc. · Domangue v. Eastern Air Lines, 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in Caldarera this court specifically held the sum of $250,000 was the maximum award that could be allowed for the emotional losses arising from the death of the wife,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e cannot judge the justification of damages by mere comparison with the awards upheld or reversed in other cases. Each case presents its own facts.”
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.