Bernstein v. Centaur Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2011
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 9 U.S.C. § 3
Relies on Scientific Holding Co. v. Plessey Inc. · E.S. Ins. Co. v. . A.C. Ins. Co. · Claflin v. . Lenheim · Imero Fiorentino Associates, Inc. v. Green · John A. Westlund, Inc. v. O'Bryan Construction Co.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Court finds that Centaur initiated an investigation once the April Claims Report was received and repudiated the contract within a reasonable time thereafter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]pparent authority terminates when the third person has notice of the termination of the agent's actual authority.”
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.