Reid v. Ruffin’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 2002 Pa. Super. 347 - Etoll, Inc. v. Elias/Savion Advertising, Inc. (2002), 1999 Pa. Super. 241 - Adamski v. Allstate Insurance Co. (1999)
2 district · 28 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 Gray v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance · Cowden v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · SMALICH v. Westfall · Goodrich & Hick's Appeal · 305 Pa. Super. 36 - Schuylkill Products, Inc. v. H. Rupert & Sons, Inc.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[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.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“no privity between the original insured and the reinsurer; the latter is in no respect liable to the former as a surety or otherwise; the contract of insurance and of reinsurance being totally distinct and disconnected.”
1 later decision 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.