Chaghervand v. Carefirst’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2011
6 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 28 U.S.C. § 1446 · 28 U.S.C. § 1447 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1144 (§ 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · Ingersoll-Rand Co. v. McClendon · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Massachusetts · American Fire & Casualty Co. v. Finn · Brillhart v. Excess Insurance Co. 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether to grant a declaratory judgment is a matter within the sound discretion of the district court.” Chaghervand v. CareFirst, 909 F.Supp. 304, 312-313 (D.Md.1995) (citing to Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Quarles, 92 F.2d 321, 324-325 (4th Cir.1937)).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Thus, the issue is not whether there is more than one cause of action. Rather, the issue is whether these causes of action are truly separate from one another, and not simply different methods of addressing the underlying harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Declaratory Judgment is appropriate where there is an actual case or controversy between the parties, and the declaration will finally resolve the case or controversy.”
1 later decision 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.