Colonial Insurance Company of California v. Spirco Environmental, Inc., Colonial Insurance Company of California v. Raymond Torrez and Guy James Clary, Colonial Insurance Company of California v. Beverly A. Shaffer’s Empirical Analysis
137 F.3d 560 · 1998
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2013
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Lewis v. Diethorn · 70 Ill. App. 3d 296 - Illinois Valley Minerals Corp. v. Royal-Globe Insurance · Whirlpool Corporation v. Ritter · 138 Ill. App. 3d 574 - Mitchell Buick & Oldsmobile Sales, Inc. v. National Dealer Services, Inc. · Paz v. Idaho
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Sitting in diversity, a district court is bound to apply the choice of law rules of the state in which it sits....”). However, before any choice of law need be made, there must be a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.