Rawlings v. Apodaca’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2007
12 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 9 Cal. 3d 566 - Gruenberg v. Aetna Insurance · 85 Wis. 2d 675 - Anderson v. Continental Insurance · Noble v. National American Life Insurance · State v. Harvill · 14 Ariz. App. 486 - Arizona Title Insurance & Trust Co. v. O'Malley Lumber 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Assuming, without deciding, that the action of the insurer in the case at bench may have been actionable under another theory, such as fraud or misrepresentation, we do not find that it comes within the limited definition of the tort of “bad faith” as defined in Noble and subsequent cases. Nor do we find it appropriate to extend the tort of “bad faith” to fit this situation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rawlings v. Apodaca
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.