Southard v. Fox’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Sunwest Bank of Albuquerque, N.A. v. Colucci (1994), Aztec Well Servicing Co. v. Property & Casualty Insurance, Guaranty Ass'n (1993)
28 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 Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe · Hudson v. Palmer · 26 Cal. 3d 86 - Greater Westchester Homeowners Ass'n v. City of Los Angeles · Bernhard v. Rochester German Insurance · State Ex Rel. Bliss v. Greenwood
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court in its discretion may allow interest of up to ten percent from the date the complaint is served upon the defendant after considering among other things: (1) if the plaintiff was the cause of unreasonable delay in the adjudication of the plaintiff's claims; and (2) if the defendant had previously made a reasonable and timely offer of settlement to the plaintiff.”
2 later decisions 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.