Hatch v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably Fairfield Insurance Co. v. Stephens Martin Paving, LP (2008), Birdo v. Holbrook (1989)
9 federal appellate · 26 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 Field v. Western Life Indemnity Co. · Llano Granite & Marble Co. v. Hollinger · Allison v. Hamic
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Undoubtedly the parties to an insurance contract may make it in any legal form they desire and, in the absence of statutory prohibitions, insurers may limit their liability and impose whatever conditions they please upon their obligations not inconsistent with public policy.”
2 later decisions 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.