St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance v. Missouri United School Insurance Council’s Empirical Analysis
98 F.3d 343 · 1996
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Brown v. Tokio Marine & Fire Insurance (2002), Home Insurance v. Aetna Insurance (2001)
11 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Langley v. Allstate Insurance Company · West v. Jacobs · Continental Casualty Co. v. Maxwell · Katz Drug Co. v. Commercial Standard Insurance Co. · GRE Insurance Group v. Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership, Inc.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`accept the written policy as the expression of the agreement made by the parties, and give effect to the intentions of the parties as disclosed by clear and unambiguous language.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen federal courts are exercising diversity jurisdiction, the rules for construing insurance policies are controlled by state law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hether the language of an insurance contract is ambiguous is a question of law.”
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.