Schroeder v. Lufthansa German Airlines’s Empirical Analysis
875 F.2d 613 · 1989
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 153 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably McCarthy v. Northwest Airlines, Inc. (1995), Hildebrandt v. Illinois Department of Natural Resources (2003)
18 federal appellate · 4 district · 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
Applies 49 U.S.C. § 40101 (Air Traffic Management System Performance Improvement Act of 1996) · 49 U.S.C. § 41511
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Coastal Steel Corp. v. Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc. · Washington v. Washington State Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel Ass'n
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 153 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, the conduct involved must be truly extreme and outrageous. Second, the actor must either intend that his conduct inflict severe emotional distress, or know that there is at least a high probability that his conduct will cause severe emotional distress. Third, the conduct must in fact cause severe emotional distress.... The law intervenes only where the distress inflicted is so severe that no reasonable man could be expected to endure it. The intensity and duration of the distress are factors to be considered in determining its severity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Police were] questioning Schroeder about a bomb threat. This activity is not even remotely related to a passenger's embarking or disembarking from an airplane.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any injury [plaintiff] suffered ... was not sustained in the course of embarking or disembarking from the airplane.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.