Edwards v. Sharkey’s Empirical Analysis

747 F.2d 684 · 1984

Citation profile

cited by 17 later decisions

states following

January 2016

most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2016

3 federal appellate · 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

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2201

Relies on Bonner v. City of Prichard · Maryland Casualty Co. v. Pacific Coal & Oil Co. · Schenberg v. Bond · Cenco Incorporated v. Seidman & Seidman · American Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. Pennsylvania Threshermen & Farmers' Mutual Casualty Insurance

Most-quoted passages

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“[A] case or controversy exists to support declaratory relief between an injured third party and an insurance company even in the absence of a judgment in favor of the third party against the insured.”). And if the policy’s employee exclusion applies, it relieves Progressive of all of its obligations under the policy. Alternatively, IPSCO contends that we should stay the case until the outcome of the Pennsylvania lawsuit. It argues that deciding whether the driver was an”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Progressive Mountain Insurance Company v. MADD Transportation, LLC
“predicated on the traditional discretion of federal courts exercising jurisdiction over declaratory judgment actions”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 651 F. Supp. 2d 1367 - Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance v. Dillard House, Inc.

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