Robbins v. Short’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 1989
3 federal appellate · 10 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 Home Ins Co v. Dick · Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Delta & Pine Land Co. · Aetna Life Insurance v. Dunken · Ruiz v. Clancy · 18 La. App. 725 - Rossville Commercial Alcohol Corp. v. Dennis Sheen Transfer 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our conclusion is that that part of Act No. 55 of 1930 permitting a claimant to join the insurer with the owner of the car under an automobile liability accident policy where a suit for damages is brought only relates to the form and effect of the action and may be applied by the lex fori, even though the contract of insurance is governed by a different provision in the policy valid under the laws of the state where entered into.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This act is purely remedial and does not affect any substantial rights under the contract of insurance.”
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.