Teague v. Tate’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Safeco Insurance Co. of America (1975), Helmkamp v. American Family Mutual Insurance Co. (1966)
6 federal appellate · 14 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 10 Smith & H. 605 - American Automobile Insurance v. Jones · 20 Tenn. App. 132 - Card v. Commercial Cas. Ins. Co. · 32 Tenn. App. 83 - Howell v. Accident & Casualty Ins. Co. of Winterthur, Switzerland · Messer v. American Mut. Liability Ins. 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . intend to lay down the rule that will license the first permittee to select a second permittee who will, in all cases, become an additional insured. Each case should be considered on the facts presented.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“III. Definition of Insured. (a) With respect to the insurance for bodily injury liability and for property damage liability the unqualified word "insured" includes the named insured and, if the named insured is an individual, his spouse if a resident of the same household, and also includes any person while using the automobile and any person or organization legally responsible for the use thereof, provided, the actual use of the automobile is by the named insured or such spouse or with the permission of either. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ray v. Earl“The issue now on which this matter must be decided is a question of fact; that is, did Tommie C. Tate have permission, either expressed or implied, to use the Buick automobile of J. B. Teague on the night of the accident to bring him within the coverage afforded by Section III of the policy?”
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.