Continental Insurance v. Fahey’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Schlieter v. Carlos (1989), Draper v. Mountain States Mutual Casualty Co. (1994)
2 federal appellate · 34 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 Chavez v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · Schmick v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · Sandoval v. Valdez · Codling v. Aztec Well Servicing Co. · Sloan v. Dairyland Insurance Company
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general rule, uninsured motorist policy provisions that limit the insured’s recovery of damages are void. Limitations on recovery under the uninsured motorist statute must accord with those set out in the statute. The only statutory conditions for entitlement to the benefits of uninsured motorist coverage are that: (1) the injured person be legally entitled to recover damages, and (2) the negligent driver be uninsured. (citation omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is immaterial that the motorist was also a workman protected by workers' compensation. The coverages are discrete and independent, and premiums were paid for both.”
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.