Myers v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 120 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions — most recently June 2009 · most notably Standard Fire Insurance Co. v. Reese (1979), St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co. v. Murphree (1962)
8 federal appellate · 120 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 Coleman v. Hamilton Storage 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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is ordinarily error for plaintiff to mention the fact in the presence of the jury that the defendant is insured against the liability which he is seeking to establish, or that he has no protecting insurance."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Million v. Rahhal · Lege v. Jones““ ‘The nature of the two claims, the one against the Highway Department and the other against the third party, are so entirely different, and so different are the rules of liability and the measure of damages applicable thereto, that the jury could only have been confused by being told the terms of the settlement.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the state was prejudicial, we are persuaded by the fact that any testimony”
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.