Ruiz v. Clancy’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently July 2001 · most notably Webb v. Zurich Insurance Company (1967), Olympic Towing Corp. v. Nebel Towing Co. (1969)
18 federal appellate · 82 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 Dunlap v. Dunlap · Edwards v. Royal Indemnity Co. · Vitale v. Checker Cab Co. · Harrison v. Louisiana Western R. · Bunt v. Sierra Butte Gold Mining 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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * The decision in Edwards v. Royal Indemnity Co. merely recognizes a distinction between a case where there is no cause of action against the insured, and hence no cause of action against the insurer, and a case where there is no right of action against the insured because of a relative incapacity of the injured party to sue the insured, or relative immunity of the insured against being sued by the injured party, in which case, according to Edwards v. Royal Indemnity Co., the injured party may have a right of action against the insurance company alone, under the act of 1930. With regard to the merits of a claim against an insured, the statute does not give the claimant a right of action against the insurance company unless the claim against the insured is well founded in law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The statute does not purport to interfere with the right of an insurance company to limit the so-called coverage, ‘in any policy against liability,’ to ‘liability imposed upon him (the assured) by law,’ as this policy provides. An insurance company therefore, may — as the company did in this instance— limit the coverage, or liability of the company, to the obligation to pay only such sums as the insured shall become obligated to pay by reason of the liability imposed upon him by law.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The purport of the decision was that the abatement of Miss Palmer’s right of action against Edwards, by effect of her marrying him, was a matter which did not concern the insurance company, because the abatement of the action against Edwards had nothing to do with the merits of the claim of Miss Palmer, or Mrs. Edwards, against either Edwards or the insurance company. The incapacity of the woman to prosecute the suit against Edwards was only a relative incapacity on her part, or relative immunity on his part, and did not affect the rights of the insurance company any more than it would have affected the rights of the insurance company if Miss Palmer had merely refused to sue Edwards, and had not married him.””
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.