Prudential Lines Inc Dicola Pli v. American Steamship Owners Mutual Protection and Indemnity Association Inc’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably 176 F3d 473 Thomas Tully v. Children and Youth Services of Allegheny County, World Trade Center Properties, LLC v. Hartford Fire Insurance (2003)
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 17 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 Maryland Casualty Co. v. Pacific Coal & Oil Co. · Protective Committee for Independent Stockholders of TMT Trailer Ferry, Inc. v. Anderson · Wilburn Boat Company v. Fireman's Fund Insurance Company · Attwood v. Singletary · Continental Casualty Co. v. Rapid-American Corp.
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by considerations of equity and policy, rather than contract wording,”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] declaratory judgment action presents an actual controversy if 'the facts alleged, under all the circumstances, show that there is a substantial controversy, between parties having adverse legal interests, of sufficient immediacy and reality to warrant the issuance of a declaratory judgment.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`Unambiguous terms are to be given their plain and ordinary meaning,' and `ambiguous language should be construed in accordance with the reasonable expectations of the insured when he entered into the contract.'”
3 later decisions 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.