Allstate Insurance v. Serio’s Empirical Analysis
261 F.3d 143 · 2001
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Harlen Associates v. The Incorporated Village of Mineola and Board of Trustees for the Incorporated Village of Mineola (2001), Arar v. Ashcroft (2009)
30 federal appellate · 5 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 Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Central Hudson Gas Electric Corporation v. Public Service Commission of New York · Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here a decision is to be made on the basis of state law ... the Supreme Court has long shown a strong preference that the controlling interpretation of the relevant statute be given by state, rather than federal, courts.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“It is axiomatic that the federal courts should, where possible, avoid reaching constitutional questions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[F]ederal courts ought not to deprive the state courts of the opportunity to construe their own statutes, using the interpretive tools, presumptions, and standards they deem proper.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.