Sheils Title Company Inc v. Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Co’s Empirical Analysis
184 F.3d 10 · 1999
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 14 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Astro-Med, Inc. v. Nihon Kohden America, Inc. (2009), United States v. Alegria (1999)
16 federal appellate · 14 district ·
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 Conway v. Electro Switch Corp. · Coffran v. Hitchcock Clinic, Inc. · Newell Puerto Rico, Ltd. v. Rubbermaid Inc. · Rw International Corp Th v. Welch Food Inc · PH Group Ltd. v. Birch
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unless the evidence, together with all reasonable inferences in favor of the verdict, could lead a reasonable person to only one conclusion, namely, that the moving party was entitled to judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A: Our business [of title insurance] is a little bit different. More — most other kinds of insurance, the whole idea is they assume the risk. In our business we try to eliminate the risk or to avoid the risk. Q: How is that possible? A: It is possible when you take a look at the historical record of a title and search the title properly and make sure that the liens on the property are discharged and do all of the research necessary and file all of the proper documents, you eliminate the risk involved in a title insurance policy. Q: How is that different [from] a life insurance company when it examines someone to issue a life insurance policy? A: People make comparisons with a doctor's examination. If you think about examining the title as you do about examining the person, the difference is if you examine the title and you do the job you are eliminating the possibility of anything bad happening. You are eliminating the possibility of a claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there is no abuse of discretion unless the verdict was so clearly against the weight of the evidence as to amount to a manifest miscarriage of justice.”
1 later decision 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.