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Nautilus Insurance Co. v. Winchester Homes, Inc.

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Abrogated
Court
Fourth Circuit
Citation
15 F.3d 371
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
42 of 42
Citing cases (total)
42
Treatment dates
1996
Abrogated
A reviewed court treats this case as abrogated by later authority. Nautilus Insurance Co. v. Winchester Homes, Inc. is abrogated in part on declaratory judgment discretion and appellate review. All 42 flagged citations have been read.
More on how this was screened

Wilton v. Seven Falls Co. changed those rules, as the Fourth Circuit recognized in Centennial Life Insurance Co. v. Poston; that ruling is listed below. Later courts continued to apply Nautilus's factors for deciding whether a federal court should hear a declaratory judgment action.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

42 later cases cite Nautilus Insurance Co. v. Winchester Homes, Inc.; 42 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Abrogated

  • The Fourth Circuit recognized that Wilton displaced Nautilus's constraints on a district court's discretion to decline declaratory judgment jurisdiction. Wilton also replaced Nautilus's de novo appellate review with review for abuse of discretion.

    Centennial Life Insurance Co. v. Poston · Fourth Circuit · filed

    To whatever extent our previous decisions have implied further constraints on district court discretion, see, e.g., Nautilus, 15 F.3d at 375, those decisions must give way to the clear teachings of Wilton.
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