314 Pa. Super. 46 - Reid v. Ruffin’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 2004
2 district · 3 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 Rova Farms Resort, Inc. v. Investors Insurance Co. of America · Gedeon v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · Gray v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance · Cowden v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · Morris & Co. v. Skandinavia Insurance
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Settlement of claims involving this reinsurance shall not be made without the consent of the Reinsurer, except in those instances where an immediate decision is necessary and it is impracticable to obtain the consent of the Reinsurer. In such instances, the Company shall exercise the necessary powers in the common interest of itself and the Reinsurer, and the Reinsurer agrees to rely upon the judgment of the Company, it being understood that the Company will forthwith advise the Reinsurer of the action taken.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Reid v. Ruffin“[t]he ceding by one insurance company to another of all or a portion of its risks for a stipulated portion of the premium, in which the liability of the reinsurer is solely to the reinsured, which is the ceding company, and in which contract the ceding company retains all contact with-the original insured, and handles all matters prior to and subsequent to loss.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Security did not have the right to control the settlement negotiations nor did it participate in same.... There was no third party beneficiary contract between the companies, and the reinsuring contract did not create a principal-agent relationship with Granite.... An agency relationship was neither contemplated nor intended by the parties,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reid v. Ruffin
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.