Margolis v. United Airlines, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “Congress did not intend to preempt state common law actions for personal injury based on the negligence of the airline or its employees”
• explaining that historically “preemption disputes involving traditional personal injury or negligence claims were almost uniformly resolved against federal preemption”
• noting how Department of Transportation regulations mandate airlines to maintain bodily injury insurance
• passenger's claim against airline based on allegation that she was struck by luggage carrier which fell from overhead bin was not preempted
• personal injury/negligence claim not preempted since the savings clause indicates no intent to preempt traditional state law claims
• “A state common law claim based on negligence and the standard of reasonable care does not purport to regulate the services that air carriers provide to their customers in exchange for their fares.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Hodges v. Delta Airlines, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-02-15· cited 241×
• Unnamed case
  Third Circuit· 1999-06-23· cited 164×
• Frances S. Hodges v. Delta Airlines, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-10-14· cited 57×
• Charles E. Gene Smith and Joan Smith v. America West Airlines, Inc. And Connie Lynn Weaver
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-02-15· cited 45×
• Rombom v. United Air Lines, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 1994-11-07· cited 43×
• Khan v. American Airlines
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1994-08-19· cited 31×
• Weiss v. El A. Israel Airlines, Ltd.
  S.D. New York· 2006-07-28· cited 31×
• Williams v. Express Airlines I, Inc.
  W.D. Tennessee· 1993-04-09· cited 30×
• Kiefer v. Continental Airlines, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1994-08-11· cited 28×
• Anderson v. Evergreen International Airlines, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1994-12-14· cited 26×
• Arapahoe County Public Airport Authority v. Centennial Express Airlines, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1998-04-13· cited 23×
• Trinidad v. American Airlines, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 1996-06-17· cited 22×
• Fenn v. American Airlines, Inc.
  S.D. Mississippi· 1993-11-19· cited 21×
• Stagl v. Delta Air Lines, Inc.
  E.D. New York· 1994-02-22· cited 21×
• Sedigh v. Delta Airlines, Inc.
  E.D. New York· 1994-04-25· cited 19×
• Dudley v. Business Express, Inc.
  D. New Hampshire· 1994-10-11· cited 18×
• Kuehne v. United Parcel Service, Inc.
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-06-27· cited 17×
• Somes Ex Rel. Somes v. United Airlines, Inc.
  D. Massachusetts· 1999-01-11· cited 16×
• Gill v. JetBlue Airways Corp.
  D. Massachusetts· 2011-12-14· cited 13×
• Jimenez-Ruiz v. Spirit Airlines, Inc.
  D. Puerto Rico· 2011-06-16· cited 11×

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Scheuer v. Rhodes
  Supreme Court· 1974-04-17· cited 13,385×
• Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-24· cited 3,550×
• Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1947-05-05· cited 2,636×
• Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-24· cited 2,631×
• Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul
  Supreme Court· 1963-06-17· cited 1,897×
• Morales v. Trans World Airlines, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-01· cited 1,837×
• Lawrence C. Bieneman v. City of Chicago
  Seventh Circuit· 1988-12-13· cited 142×
• Perry v. PIE Nationwide, Inc.
  Sixth Circuit· 1989-04-10· cited 104×
• Russell Wayne Anderson v. Usair, Inc
  D.C. Circuit· 1987-05-05· cited 78×
• In Re Air Crash Disaster at John F. Kennedy International Airport on June 24, 1975
  Second Circuit· 1980-10-06· cited 65×
• Michael Hingson v. Pacific Southwest Airlines, a California Corporation
  Ninth Circuit· 1984-10-02· cited 62×
• Medical Malpractice Insurance Ass'n v. Superintendent of Insurance
  Supreme Court· 1989-05-22· cited 61×
• Melvin O'CarrOll v. American Airlines, Inc., Chaparral Airlines, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1989-01-12· cited 53×
• Carriers Container Council, Inc. v. Mobile Steamship Ass'n
  Supreme Court· 1990-10-15· cited 51×
• In Re Air Crash Disaster at Stapleton International Airport, Denver, Colorado, on November 15, 1987
  D. Colorado· 1988-12-23· cited 24×
• Stewart v. American Airlines, Inc.
  S.D. Texas· 1991-10-29· cited 21×
• Von Anhalt v. Delta Air Lines, Inc.
  S.D. Florida· 1990-03-01· cited 17×
• In Re Air Crash Disaster at Sioux City, Iowa
  N.D. Illinois· 1990-03-14· cited 16×
• Howard v. Northwest Airlines, Inc.
  S.D. Texas· 1992-01-03· cited 15×
• Diefenthal v. Civil Aeronautics Board
  Fifth Circuit· 1982-08-06· cited 15×