Brazil v. Giuffrida’s Empirical Analysis
763 F.2d 1072 · 1985
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Wagner v. Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency (1988), Flick v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance (2000)
13 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 4001 (Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012)
Relies on United States Parole Commission v. Geraghty · Lojek v. Thomas · West v. Harris · Hanover Building Materials, Inc. v. Guiffrida · Atlas Pallet, Inc. v. Gallagher
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Since the flood insurance program is a child of Congress, conceived to achieve policies which are national in scope, and since the federal government participates extensively in the program both in a supervisory capacity and financially, it is clear that the interest in uniformity of decision present in this case mandates the application of federal law.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“draw[ ] upon standard insurance law principles”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress did not intend to abrogate standard insurance law principles.”
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.