Klein v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Diebold, Inc. · Federal Crop Ins Corporation v. Merrill · Heyman v. Commerce & Industry Insurance · Quinn v. Syracuse Model Neighborhood Corp. · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Federal Crime Insurance Program and the instant insurance policy are governed by the explicit language of Congress and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. State law, no matter how appealing in result, is not determinative.””
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.