Shipner v. Eastern Air Lines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
868 F.2d 401 · 1989
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Cannon v. Macon County (1993), 944 F. Supp. 1573 - CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Georgia Public Service Commission (1996)
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Mercantile Bank & Trust Co. v. Fidelity & Deposit Co. · United States v. Oakley · 471 So. 2d 38 - The Florida Bar in Re Inglis · Hurt v. Leatherby Ins. 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall be freely given when justice so requires.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“circumscribes the exercise of the district court's discretion; thus, unless a substantial reason exists to deny leave to amend, the discretion of the district court is not broad enough to permit denial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not exist merely because a contract can possibly be interpreted in more than one manner.”
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.