Welborn v. Wyatt’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2000
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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 Waddey v. Maryland Casualty Co. · Darden v. North American Benefit Ass'n · Collins v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“courts have no power to make contracts of insurance, and when it appears upon the face of the contract by clear and unambiguous language that exclusions of risks are incorporated therein, then it is the duty of the court to enforce the contract as written.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““This policy shall not apply: . . . under coverages (a) and (b), while the automobile is used for the towing of any trailer owned or hired by the insured and not covered by like insurance in the company; or while my trailer covered by this policy is used with an automobile owned or hired by the insured and not covered by like insurance in the company(Emphasis supplied).”
1 later decision 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.