Polec v. Northwest Airlines, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he author [must] contribute[] something more than a merely trivial variation, something recognizably his own.”
• “[T]he author [must] contribute[] something more than a merely trivial variation, something recognizably his own.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Bowers v. National Collegiate Athletic Ass'n
  Third Circuit· 2007-02-01· cited 226×
• Patricia Hennessy v. Penril Datacomm Networks, Incorporated and Richard Burns
  Seventh Circuit· 1995-11-13· cited 204×
• In Re Air Crash Disaster.
  Sixth Circuit· 1996-06-06· cited 170×
• Bowers v. National Collegiate Athletic Association
  Third Circuit· 2007-02-01· cited 96×
• Rivera v. Lake County
  N.D. Illinois· 2013-09-26· cited 45×
• Benchwarmers, Inc. v. Gorin
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-03-12· cited 5×
• Melhelm v. Meijer, Inc.
  S.D. Ohio· 2002-02-26· cited 1×
• Lind v. McHugh
  District of Columbia· 2014-08-07

Cites

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

• Johnson v. Zerbst
  Supreme Court· 1938-05-31· cited 10,545×
• Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co.
  Supreme Court· 1941-06-02· cited 8,668×
• Allied Chemical Corp. v. Daiflon, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1980-11-17· cited 1,679×
• Ackermann v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1950-12-11· cited 1,471×
• Bellamy v. Bradley
  Sixth Circuit· 1984-03-09· cited 838×
• Unnamed case
  Third Circuit· 1982-07-16· cited 539×
• Air France v. Saks
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-04· cited 438×
• Lawrence R. Sperberg v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
  Sixth Circuit· 1975-07-03· cited 318×
• United States v. James F. Moored
  Sixth Circuit· 1994-11-01· cited 313×
• Cates v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.
  Fifth Circuit· 1991-04-01· cited 210×
• Barbara Ann Brandenburg v. Harry E. Cureton, Lynn Murphy, Calvin Morton, Jr., Appeal of Warren G. Hatfield, Roy Sharp and Mark Wright
  Sixth Circuit· 1989-08-11· cited 169×
• Lambertson v. Cincinnati Corp.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1977-02-04· cited 163×
• Torres v. County of Oakland
  Sixth Circuit· 1985-03-19· cited 149×
• Jones v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1983-01-17· cited 135×
• Terry v. Enomoto
  Supreme Court· 1984-10-01· cited 126×
• City of Cleveland v. Peter Kiewit Sons' Co.
  Sixth Circuit· 1980-06-18· cited 117×
• Charles W. And Margaret Laverne Beard v. Norwegian Caribbean Lines
  Sixth Circuit· 1990-04-02· cited 114×
• Burnett v. City of Adrian
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1982-11-23· cited 113×
• Hardy v. Monsanto Enviro-Chem Systems, Inc
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1982-08-23· cited 107×
• United States v. Fred M. Mosely
  Sixth Circuit· 1987-01-22· cited 101×