Alaska Airlines, Inc. v. Donovan’s Empirical Analysis
766 F.2d 1550 · 1985
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably Alaska Airlines, Inc. v. Brock (1987), 626 F. Supp. 1374 - Synar v. United States (1986)
12 federal appellate · 8 district ·
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1252 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Buckley v. Valeo · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson · National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Chadha
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress would have preferred [the] statute[ ], after severance of the legislative veto provision[ ], to no statute[ ] at all.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he House provisions on employee protection ... were stronger than those in the [final Act].” Alaska Airlines, Inc. v. Donovan, 766 F.2d 1550 , 1562 n. 10 (D.C.Cir.1985), citing 124 Cong.Rec. 38,522 (1978). Representative Mineta stated that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the indicators are all positive, and employment will continue to increase as the carriers respond to the changes and new opportunities deregulation has brought.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.