Newport v. USAA’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

cited by 32 later decisions

states following

December 2023

most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably 329 Ill. App. 3d 1166 - O'Neill v. Gallant Insurance (2002), Brown v. Patel (2007)

1 federal appellate · 18 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 Christian v. American Home Assurance Co. · Buzzard v. Farmers Ins. Co., Inc. · Keel v. MFA Insurance Company · Barnes v. Oklahoma Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. · Manis v. Hartford Fire Insurance 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“[W]hen presented with a claim by its insured, an insurer must conduct an investigation reasonably appropriate under the circumstances and the claim must be paid promptly unless the insurer has a reasonable belief that the claim is legally or factually insufficient.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Terry v. Health Care Serv. Corp. · Andres v. Oklahoma Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co.
“An insurer may not treat its own insured in the manner in which an insurer may treat third-party claimants to whom no duty of good faith and fair dealing is owed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. HENSLEY v. STATE FARM FIRE AND CASUALTY CO. · SWAIN v. UNITED AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE CO.
“good faith belief, at the time its performance was requested, that it had justifiable reason for withholding payment under the policy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Brown v. Oklahoma Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. · Kentucky Bluegrass Contracting, LLC v. Cincinnati Insurance Co.

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.