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Tackitt v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America’s Empirical Analysis

758 F.2d 1572 · 1985

Citation profile

86
cited by 86 later decisions
1
states following
March 2014
most recently cited

47 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Clark v. Coats & Clark, Inc. (1991), Florida Power Light Company v. Allis Chalmers Corporation Rte (1990)

47 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions

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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 5 U.S.C. § 706 · 5 U.S.C. § 8902

Relies on Bowman Transportation, Inc. v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc. · Clemons v. Dougherty County · Warrior Tombigbee Transportation Co. v. M/V Nan Fung · 78 Wash. 2d 286 - Myers v. Kitsap Physicians Service

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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the interpretation of health insurance contracts is controlled by federal, not state law”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[w]e resolve all reasonable doubts about the facts in favor of the non-movant.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “ambiguous contracts are construed against their authors....”
    2 later decisions 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.