Kollar v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
176 F.3d 175 · 1999
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Gabriel v. Preble (2005), DiLieto v. County Obstetrics & Gynecology Group, P.C. (2003)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 In re Trans World Airlines Incorporated Interface Group-Nevada Incorporated · Barnes v. Cohen · Johnson v. Beane · Integrated Solutions, Inc. v. Service Support Specialties, Inc. · 415 Pa. Super. 371 - Strutz v. State Farm Mutual Insurance
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under Pennsylvania law, “in the absence of a statute or a policy provision on which such right may be predicated, a person may not maintain a suit directly against [an] insurer to recover on a judgment rendered against the insured.” Philadelphia Forest Hills Corp. v. Bituminous Cas. Corp., 208 Pa.Super. 461 , 222 A.2d 493, 494 (1966); see also Apalucci v. Agora Syndicate, Inc., 145 F.3d 630, 632 (3d Cir.1998) (“It is well-settled that under Pennsylvania law, an injured party has no right to directly sue the insurer of an alleged tortfeasor unless a provision of the policy or a statute create such a right.”); Strutz v. State Farm Mut. Ins. Co., 415 Pa.Super. 371 , 609 A.2d 569, 570 (1992) (rejecting an argument that persons injured in a car accident are third-party beneficiaries of the other driver’s insurance policy and therefore could bring an action directly against the other driver’s insurance company).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the insured is insolvent; (2) an accident or other covered event has occurred; (3) the insured is liable for the accident; (4) a judgment has been entered against the insured; (5) the third party has unsuccessfully sought to execute the judgment against the insured; and (6) the insurance company is a liability insurer for the insolvent insured.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Bankruptcy Code defines a bankrupt's estate broadly to encompass all kinds of property, including intangibles and causes of action”)); Matter of Wischan, 77 F.3d 875, 877 (5th Cir.1996) (finding the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Suter v. Goedert
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.