K. Bell & Associates, Inc. v. Lloyd's Underwriters’s Empirical Analysis
97 F.3d 632 · 1996
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Krumme v. WestPoint Stevens Inc. (2000), Law Debenture Trust Co. v. Maverick Tube Corp. (2010)
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Colon v. Coughlin · Miner v. City of Glens Falls · Consarc Corporation v. Marine Midland Bank Na
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'is a matter of law for the courts to decide.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f the contract is capable of only one reasonable interpretation, i.e., is unambiguous, we are required to give effect to the contract as written.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Consarc Corp. v. Marine Midland Bank, N.A. , 996 F.2d 568 , 573 (2d Cir. 1993).”
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.