Connecticut General Life Insurance Company v. Universal Insurance Company, Hector Manuel Rodriguez-Estrada, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company v. Universal Insurance Company, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company v. Universal Insurance Company’s Empirical Analysis
838 F.2d 612 · 1988
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 16 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably XL/Datacomp, Inc. v. Wilson (1994), United States v. Rodriguez-Estrada (1989)
28 federal appellate · 16 district · 4 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
Relies on American Sterilizer Co. v. Sybron Corp. · Cunningham v. Brown · Mosser v. Darrow · Johnston v. Holiday Inns, Inc. · Schuyler v. Littlefield
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.
“below the level of the trust fund but not depleted, the claimant is entitled to the lowest intermediate balance in the account.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There can be no recovery ... where all that can be shown is enrichment of the trustee. [The trust property] must be clearly traced and identified in specific property.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[B]ecause it pertains to distribution of assets from an entity in federal bankruptcy proceedings, [tracing] is exclusively a question of federal law.”
4 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.