Mead v. Burns’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 61 district · 541 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 616 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably D'Ulisse-Cupo v. Board of Directors of Notre Dame High School (1987), Morris v. Hartford Courant Co. (1986)
7 federal appellate · 61 district · 541 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 15 U.S.C. § 1012 (§ 2 of the McCarran-Ferguson Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 45 (§ 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914)
Relies on United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Ass'n · Federal Trade Commission v. Sperry & Hutchinson Co. · Sheets v. Teddy's Frosted Foods, Inc. · 23 Cal. 3d 880 - Royal Globe Insurance v. Superior Court · Amodio v. Cunningham
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 616 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“with such frequency as to indicate a general business practice.”
59 later decisions quote this exact passage“[C]laims of unfair settlement practices under CUIPA require a showing of more than a single act of insurance misconduct.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]solated instances of unfair insurance settlement practices are not so violative of the public policy of this state as to warrant statutory intervention.”
22 later decisions 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.