The Lexington Insurance Company v. Rugg & Knopp, Inc., and the Salt Lake City Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “a federal court sitting in diversity must proceed with caution in making pronouncements about state law”
• noting that federal courts have no power to create state law
• noting that federal courts have no power to create state law
• “Lacking any inherent power to make state law such as a state court might have … a federal court must be careful to avoid the temptation to impose upon a state what it, or other jurisdictions, might consider to be wise policy.”
• “Lacking any inherent power to make state law such as a state court might have … a federal court must be careful to avoid the temptation to impose upon a state what it, or other jurisdictions, might consider to be wise policy.”
• \[A] federal court sitting in diversity must proceed with caution in making pronouncements about state law.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).