Provau v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
772 F.2d 817 · 1985
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably Studstill v. Borg Warner Leasing (1986), Sci Liquidating Corporation Sunrise Carpet Industries Inc v. Hartford Fire Insurance Company Hartford Casualty Insurance Company (1999)
8 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
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co. · Johnson v. United States · Flintkote Company v. Dravo Corporation B F
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“bound to adhere to decisions from the state's intermediate appellate court, absent some persuasive indication that the state's highest court would decide the issue otherwise.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The construction of insurance contracts is governed by substantive state law,”
5 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.