Employer Reinsurance Corporation v. Karussos’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
16 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably 935 F. Supp. 1048 - Ashmus v. Calderon (1996), 924 F. Supp. 373 - National Union Fire Insurance v. Coric (1996)
16 district ·
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 Wilton v. Seven Falls Co. · Brillhart v. Excess Insurance Co. of America · Securities & Exchange Commission v. National Securities, Inc. · Mitcheson v. Harris · Continental Casualty Co. v. Robsac Industries
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]ourts should generally decline to assert jurisdiction in insurance coverage and other declaratory relief actions presenting only issues of state law during the pendency of parallel proceedings in state court unless there are circumstances present to warrant an exception to that rule.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Unigard Security Insurance Company, a Washington Corporation v. Raymond F. Bock, Jr., Personal Representative of the Estate of Raymond F. Bock, M.D., Deceased, Unigard Security Insurance Company, a Washington Corporation v. Raymond F. Bock, Jr., and Christopher E. Jobst, Personal Representative of the Estate of Bernadette Boc, Deceased · United Nat. Ins. Co. v. Mydrin, Inc.“[W]e do not agree with ERC’s contention that simply asking for a share of the defense costs to date transforms a declaratory relief action over which jurisdiction is discretionary into a case which the district court is obliged to hear.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“circumstances present to warrant an exception to the general rule that the action belongs in state rather than federal court.”
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.