Gowland’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 122 F. Supp. 2d 513 - Messa v. Omaha Property & Casualty Insurance (2000), 112 F. Supp. 2d 1000 - Scherz v. South Carolina Insurance (2000)
1 federal appellate · 7 district · 4 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 Federal Crop Ins Corporation v. Merrill · Office of Personnel Management v. Richmond · Hill v. National Flood Insurance Program · Ingalls Shipbuilding, Inc. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“0. Requirements in Case of Loss: should a flood loss occur to the insured property, the Insured must: [ ... ] 3. Within 60 days after the loss, send the Insurer a proof of loss, which is the Insured’s statement as to the amount it is claiming under the policy signed and sworn to by the Insured....”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“As the provisions of an insurance policy issued pursuant to a federal program must be strictly construed and enforced, we hold that an insured’s failure to provide a complete, sworn proof of loss statement, as required by the flood insurance policy, relieves the federal insurer’s obligation to pay what otherwise might be a valid claim.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen federal funds are involved, the judiciary is powerless to uphold a claim of estoppel because such a holding would encroach upon the appropriation power granted exclusively to Congress by the Constitution.”
4 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.