Gray v. Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “discover[ed] the friction the EFCS mechanism generated, the tripping of the shutoff valve at higher-than-specified pressures ... and the fact that the control stick had to be within 60 percent of its centered position for the latch-up to occur.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gray v. Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Co.

2. “deviated from the ATP and moved the servo's input arm to stimulate commands from the control stick, the servo's shutoff valve tripped at 1400 psi, not the specified 800 psi.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gray v. Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Co.

3. “a movable part of an airplane wing or a movable airfoil external to the wing at the trailing edge for imparting a rolling motion and thus providing lateral control.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gray v. Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Co.