Empire Fire and Marine Insurance Company v. Guaranty National Insurance Company’s Empirical Analysis
868 F.2d 357 · 1989
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 9 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably 117 Md. App. 72 - Empire Fire and Marine Ins. Co. v. Liberty Mutual Ins. Co. (1997), Campbell v. Bartlett (1992)
20 federal appellate · 9 district · 17 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 49 U.S.C. § 304
Relies on American Trucking Ass'ns v. United States Eastern Motor Exp · Logiudice v. Georgia · Transamerican Freight Lines, Inc. v. Brada Miller Freight Systems, Inc. · Carolina Casualty Insurance Company v. Insurance Company of North America T II Refrigerated Transport Co Inc · National Mutual Ins. v. Liberty Mutual Ins.
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conditioned to pay any final judgment recovered against such motor carrier for bodily injuries to or the death of any person resulting from the negligent operation, maintenance, or use of motor vehicles”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all terms, conditions, and limitations in the policy to which the endorsement is attached shall remain in full force and effect as binding between the insured and the company. The insured agrees to reimburse the company for any payment made by the company ... that the company would not have been obligated to make under the provisions of the policy except for the agreement contained in this endorsement.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any final judgment recovered against the insured for public liability resulting from negligence in the operation, maintenance or use of motor vehicles.”
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.