Stonewall Insurance v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
544 F.2d 198 · 1976
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Webb v. Investacorp, Inc. (1996), St. Paul Reinsurance Co. v. Greenberg (1998)
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Balistrieri v. United States · Motorists Mutual Insurance v. Simpson · Consolidated Copperstate Lines v. United States
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“solely from the viewpoint of the plaintiff [insurer], ignoring the lawsuit’s pecuniaiy impact on the defendant [insured].” Id. at 199 n. 2. We held that we did not have to consider this rule because “[t]he difference between winning and losing this lawsuit,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The pecuniary value of the obligation to defend the separate lawsuit is properly considered in determining the existence of the jurisdictional amount....”
1 later decision 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.