Griffith v. Security Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently September 2003 · most notably Middlesex Mutual Assurance Co. v. Walsh (1991), Griswold v. Union Labor Life Insurance (1982)
3 federal appellate · 66 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 Mazzilli v. Acc. & Cas. Ins. Co. of Winterthur · Downs v. National Casualty Co. · State v. Pundy · Brockett v. Jensen · Bridgeport Pipe Engineering Co. v. DeMatteo Construction 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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family: a domestic establishment; specif: a social unit comprised of those living together in the same dwelling place.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage““Over the years, many courts have been faced with the similar problem of deciding whether on a given state of facts individual persons are members of a particular household and, in each case, the decision has depended upon the particular factual circumstances involved. These factual circumstances are so varied that the decisions themselves are of little precedential value.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“No persuasive argument or legal authority has been submitted for the proposition that the controlling words of the policy “resident of the same household,” are ambiguous. The Supreme Courts of Hawaii and Minnesota, in considering the same provisions in insurance policies, have concluded that the words are not ambiguous, and we agree with their conclusions.”
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.