Summers v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
573 F.2d 869 · 1978
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably 154 Ill. 2d 90 - Outboard Marine Corp. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance (1992), United States v. Blakeney (1991)
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 4001 (Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012) · 42 U.S.C. § 4012 · 42 U.S.C. § 4014 · 42 U.S.C. § 4056
Relies on West v. Harris · Drewett v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · 399 F. Supp. 1242 - Presley v. National Flood Insurers Association
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“peddled a boat across the area of water which then stood in his front yard.”
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.