No. 97-1282’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2018
3 district · 2 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 West v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Mohn v. American Casualty Co. · Pacific Indemnity Co. v. Linn · General Accident Insurance Co. of America v. Allen · Wilson v. Maryland Casualty Co.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[fjrom Pipher’s standpoint, Bernine McFadden’s assault and death was unexpected, entirely fortuitous, and, therefore, an accident. Thus, in this case, from Pipher (the insured’s) perspective, her alleged negligence — the failure to re-hang the doors to the leased apartment and the hiring of Wood, a known troubled person — resulted in a tragic accident (i.e., the unintended and unexpected murder of her tenant Bernine McFadden).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the court must focus on the nature of the act which inflicted the injury or directly caused the death, and that act must be unintentional, even when an insured is sued for negligently failing to prevent or for contributing to the harmful intentional acts of the person who directly inflicted the injury or caused the death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a declaration that it has no duty to defend and indemnify Pipher because Bernine McFadden's death was caused by an intentional assault and murder committed by Wood, and thus her death was not an insured 'occurrence' as defined in the policy.”
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.