Er’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
9 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Lone Star Industries, Inc. (2009), Etoile Le Blanc Stephen Ossen v. Terry Cleveland (2001)
9 district · 4 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 Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth · City of St. Louis v. Praprotnik · Wilton v. Seven Falls Co. · Bragdon v. Abbott
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]hat the liability may be contingent does not necessarily defeat jurisdiction of a declaratory judgment action. Rather, courts should focus on the practical likelihood that the contingencies will occur. Indeed, litigation over insurance coverage has become the paradigm for asserting jurisdiction despite future contingencies that will determine whether a controversy ever actually becomes real.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be a real and substantial controversy admitting of specific relief through a decree of conclusive character, as distinguished from an opinion advising what the law would be upon a hypothetical state of facts.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[WJhile Squibb may have gained from the settlements, it undoubtedly took the risk that the size of the settlements would be inadequate to cover the settling insurers’ pro rata share. In such a case Squibb would have been left holding the bag.... Under the court’s approach, the settling parties are the ones who took the risk of the settlement, and the non-settling parties are left precisely as they would have been had no settlement occurred. That hardly seems unfair.”
2 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.