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← 963 FSUPP 113 - Fratus v. Republic Western Insurance

Fratus v. Republic Western Insurance’s Empirical Analysis

1997

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
February 2005
most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 1 district ·

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1961

Relies on Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. v. Bonjorno · Cody v. Connecticut General Life Insurance · People v. . Schmidt · Grogan v. Garner · 17 Ill. 2d 242 - River Valley Cartage Co. v. Hawkeye-Security Insurance

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “policies, RU-01000, RU-02000 and RU-03000, to pay three million dollars--the policy limits of those policies--of the original judgments against Obert and Drywall. The district court held that these umbrella policies did not apply to the accident because only U-Haul, and not Obert or Drywall, was insured under the policies. See id. at 119. Plaintiffs appeal this ruling, arguing that Obert was insured as a”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[i]n addition to our limit of liability, we will pay for the insured ... [a]ll interest accruing after the entry of judgment in a suit we defend. Our duty to pay interest ends when we pay or tender our limit of liability”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “it makes no difference which law applies because the application of either state's law leads to the same conclusion.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.