Tackitt v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America’s Empirical Analysis
758 F.2d 1572 · 1985
Citation profile
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
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.
“the interpretation of health insurance contracts is controlled by federal, not state law”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[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“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.