Supply Company Inc v. Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance Company’s Empirical Analysis
798 F.2d 669 · 1986
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 5 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably 46 Cal. 3d 287 - Moradi-Shalal v. Fireman's Fund Ins. Companies (1988), Lamar Homes, Inc. v. Mid-Continent Casualty Co. (2007)
31 federal appellate · 5 district · 32 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 15 U.S.C. § 41 (§ 1 of the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914)
Relies on Cort v. Ash · 36 Cal. 3d 752 - Seaman's Direct Buying Service, Inc. v. Standard Oil Co. · Seatrain Shipbuilding Corp. v. Shell Oil Co. · 23 Cal. 3d 880 - Royal Globe Insurance v. Superior Court · 68 Cal. 2d 822 - Reichert v. General Insurance of America
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“federal courts should be reluctant to read private rights of action into state laws where state courts and state legislatures have not done so. Without clear and specific evidence of legislative intent, the creation of a private right of action by a federal court abrogates both the prerogatives of the political branches and the obvious authority of states to sculpt the content of state law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is one that is factually bound to the contractual breach but whose legal elements are distinct from it”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in a first-party Virginia insurance relationship, liability for bad faith conduct is a matter of contract rather than tort law. The obligation arises from the agreement and extends only to situations connected with the agreement.”
3 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.