Nelson v. Becton’s Empirical Analysis
929 F.2d 1287 · 1991
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2015
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 42 U.S.C. § 4001 (Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012) · 42 U.S.C. § 4013 · 42 U.S.C. § 4072
Relies on Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States · United States 77-1359 v. Kimbell Foods Inc · Darr v. Burford · 65 Cal. 2d 263 - Gray v. Zurich Insurance Co. · United States v. Owens
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The extent to which they were subgrade, whether 6, 8, or 40 inches, is immaterial under the policy. The only question is whether they were subgrade or at ground level.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Basement means any area of the building having its floor subgrade (below ground level) on all sides.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“To apply the varying reasonable expectations doctrines of the insurance laws of individual states would `frustrate specific objectives of the Federal program[].'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Witt
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.