Hendren v. Allstate Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Azar v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America (2003), Chavez v. New Mexico (2005)
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 37 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 Scott v. Rizzo · Bartlett v. New Mexico Welding Supply, Inc. · Franco v. Federal Building Service, Inc. · C & H Construction & Paving Co. v. Citizens Bank · Richardson v. Employers Liability Assurance Corp.
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The difficulty arises because the insurer, on the one hand, sold the policy and thus has an obligation to its insured, unlike third-party coverage situations. On the other hand, however, the insurer assumes an adversary role as to questions involving the uninsured motorist's negligence and any available defenses he might have.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The rule we adopt does not mean that the insurer is precluded from defending the uninsured motorist or from evaluating the claim any differently than it would have had it provided third party coverage. What it does mean, however, ... is that the insurer must deal in good faith and fairly as to the terms of the policy and not overreach the insured, despite its adversary interest.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“in spite of its adversary interest, an insurer continues to have a duty to deal fairly and in good faith with its insured in settling a claim under the uninsured motorist provisions of the automobile insurance contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.