Stickley v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• applying an Erie doctrine analysis to a state statute and the forum State’s courts’ interpretation of it
• requiring the Court to answer open questions of state law by endeavoring to predict how the state’s high court would rule
• decision of state intermediate appellate court should only be disregarded if there is \persuasive data that the highest court of the state would decide otherwise\
• a federal court should generally follow an intermediate appellate state court’s interpretation of state law unless convinced that the state’s highest court would decide otherwise
• “When the federal courts are called upon to interpret state law, the federal court must look to the rulings of the highest state court . . . .”
• “When the federal courts are called upon to interpret state law, the federal court must look to the rulings of the highest state court . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).