Messick v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
4 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Adams v. Manown (1992), 89 Md. App. 503 - Manown v. Adams (1991)
4 district · 24 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990)
Relies on Porter v. Warner Holding Co. · Oscanyan v. Arms Co. · Deitrick v. Greaney · Loughran v. Loughran · Frost Co v. Coeur D'Alene Mines Corporation
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of Title 27 is “to regulate trade practices in the business of insurance ... by defining ... all trade practices in the business of insurance in the State that are unfair methods of competition or unfair or deceptive acts or practices and by prohibiting those trade practices.” The Plaintiffs, as insurance purchasers, were allegedly subjected to unfair trade practices by the defendant insurance company, and are thus within the class of persons for whose protection or benefit the statute was enacted.... [T]hese circumstances preclude a finding that the parties were in pari delicto.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Wjhen plaintiff and defendant have participated in fraudulent or illegal conduct, contrary to law or public policy or in fraud of the law itself, and are in pari delicto, plaintiff cannot maintain suit — at law or in equity — directly arising out of the misconduct. (Emphasis added, citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Adams v. Manown
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.