Wright v. Allstate Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
500 F.3d 390 · 2007
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 4001 (Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012) · 42 U.S.C. § 4012A · 42 U.S.C. § 4053
Relies on Cort v. Ash · Cannon v. University of Chicago · Touche Ross & Co. v. Redington · Transamerica Mortgage Advisors, Inc. v. Lewis · California v. Sierra Club
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether the plaintiff is one of a class for whose especial benefit the statute was enacted; (2) whether there is an indication of legislative intent to create or deny such remedy; (3) whether such a remedy would be inconsistent with the underlying legislative purpose; and (4) whether the cause of action is one traditionally relegated to state law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“That Congress expressly authorized private causes of action in other sections of the NFIA weighs against [the] theory that Congress implicitly intended the courts to fashion additional causes of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“was to reduce, by implementation of adequate land use controls and flood insurance, the massive burden on the federal fisc of the ever-increasing federal flood disaster assistance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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