National Fire Insurance v. Board of Public Instruction of Madison County’s Empirical Analysis
239 F.2d 370 · 1956
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 2005
5 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2202
Relies on Collins v. Aetna Insurance · Phenix Ins. v. Kerr · Insurance Co. of North America v. Erickson · Centennial Insurance Company v. Parnell
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Federal Declaratory Judgment Act contemplates that all necessary or proper relief based on the declaratory judgment should be granted”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Further necessary or proper relief based on a declaratory judgment or decree may be granted, after reasonable notice and hearing, against any adverse party whose rights have been determined by such judgment.”
1 later decision 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.