Steadele v. Colony Insurance’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 14 district · 22 state decisions

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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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “; (2) Authorize us to obtain records and other information; (3) Cooperate with us in the investigation or settlement of the claim or defense against the”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Am. Trucking & Transp. Ins. Co. v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co. · Contractors Bonding & Ins. Co. v. Sandrock

2. “In Steadele, we concluded that the district court properly granted the insurer’s motion for summary judgment based upon its complete lack of notice of the pendency of any claim against its insured, until more than 60 days after a default judgment in the approximate amount of $1.88 million had been entered in favor of Steadele and against the insured. When Steadele attempted to recover the judgment amount from Colony, Colony argued that the lack of notice of the claim severely prejudiced it. We observed that because of the lack of notice, Colony was completely deprived of the ability to investigate, locate witnesses, appoint counsel or ne gotiate a settlement and therefore suffered prejudice. There are notable distinctions between Steadele and the case before us ... [t]he most significant distinction, however, is that in Steadele, Colony Insurance asserted from the inception that because the insured never notified it of the litigation, it was deprived of the ability to investigate and assess the validity of the claim.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Atlantic Casualty Insurance v. Greytak · Am. Trucking & Transp. Ins. Co. v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.