Cleveland v. Piper Aircraft Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
985 F.2d 1438 · 1993
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 15 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably American Airlines, Inc. v. Wolens (1995), Michael v. Shiley, Inc. (1995)
24 federal appellate · 15 district · 8 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 San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon · Hines v. Davidowitz · Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp. · Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc. · M'Culloch v. State of Maryland
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]o State or political subdivision thereof and no interstate agency or other political agency of two or more States shall enact or enforce any law, rule, regulation, standard, or other provision having the force and effect of law relating to rates, routes, or services of any air carrier ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Consideration of issues arising under the Supremacy Clause "start[s] with the assumption that the historic police powers of the States [are] not to be superseded by . . . Federal Act unless that [is] the clear and manifest purpose of Congress."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Congress has not indicated a 'clear and manifest' intent to occupy the field of airplane safety to the exclusion of state common law”
2 later decisions 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.