Atlas v. Eastern Airlines, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• questionnaires sent to prospective grand jurors whose names were obtained by the sponsor system challenged as being insufficient to insure that candidates were qualified
• agents lacked authority under law to arrest defendant without a warrant absent reasonable cause to believe defendant was committing or attempting to commit a misdemeanor in their presence
• The Second Circuit evidences at least one contra decision in United States v. Kaplan, 586 F.2d 980 (2d Cir.1978), but this may be explained as an exercise of the court’s power to notice plain error under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b)
• delay of one to two minutes
• no warrant; justified under state law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

89 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Duane Earl Pope v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 1967-03-14· cited 241×
• Duncan v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1965-06-30· cited 230×
• United States v. Ralph 'Whitey' Tropiano, Lawrence R. Pellegrino and William Grasso,defendants-Appellants
  Second Circuit· 1969-11-26· cited 212×
• Tisch Hotels, Inc., Americana Hotel Operating Corporation v. Americana Inn, Inc., Americana Motor Courts, Inc., Americana Catering Company
  Seventh Circuit· 1965-09-14· cited 173×
• Spraying Systems Company v. Delavan, Incorporated
  Seventh Circuit· 1992-09-17· cited 154×
• United States v. Piero Heliczer, Jack William Martin, Iii, and Jack v. Smith
  Second Circuit· 1967-02-23· cited 130×
• United States v. Bill Miles Skillman
  Eighth Circuit· 1971-04-30· cited 125×
• William James Evans v. United States of America, George William Bruton v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 1967-03-22· cited 119×
• United States v. Gordon R. Thompson
  Second Circuit· 1965-12-06· cited 115×
• United States v. Resko
  Third Circuit· 1993-08-24· cited 114×
• United States v. Lopez
  E.D. New York· 1971-05-14· cited 108×
• United States v. Harvey Birdman, United States of America v. William Richman
  Third Circuit· 1979-06-25· cited 105×
• United States v. Daniel Reid and Theodore E. Thomas, Jr.
  Second Circuit· 1975-04-24· cited 100×
• Ideal Industries, Inc. v. Gardner Bender, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 1980-01-28· cited 100×
• Buzbee v. Donnelly
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1981-09-25· cited 99×
• Clairol Incorporated v. The Gillette Company
  Second Circuit· 1968-01-29· cited 98×
• United States v. George Barrow, Benny Bonanno, Fred Dipatrizio, Joseph Mattia and Pasquale Pillo
  Third Circuit· 1966-08-30· cited 92×
• United States v. J. Norman Jones
  Ninth Circuit· 1970-04-07· cited 91×
• David R. Jones v. United States of America, Willie L. Short, Jr. v. United States of America, Arthur L. Jones v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1964-07-16· cited 90×
• Unnamed case
  Fifth Circuit· 1974-07-29· cited 88×