Willis v. Swain’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 9 Cal. 3d 566 - Gruenberg v. Aetna Insurance · 17 Cal. 3d 937 - Murphy v. Allstate Insurance · Best Place, Inc. v. Penn America Insurance Co. · Smith v. Safeco Ins. Co. · Smith v. Safeco Insurance
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[R]easonableness can only constitute a question of law suitable for summary judgment when the facts are undisputed and not fairly susceptible of divergent inferences, because, where, upon all the evidence, but one inference may reasonably be drawn, there is no issue for the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n general, whether an insurer has acted in bad faith is a question of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.