Reid v. Benz’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

cited by 28 later decisions

states following

February 2020

most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 18 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably ACMAT Corp. v. Greater New York Mutual Insurance (2007), Wilkinson v. Citation Insurance (2006)

4 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 85 Wis. 2d 675 - Anderson v. Continental Insurance · 119 Wis. 2d 722 - Kremers-Urban Co. v. American Employers Insurance Co. · 169 Wis. 2d 310 - Elliott v. Donahue · Upland Mutual Insurance, Inc. v. Noel · 176 Wis. 2d 824 - Newhouse Ex Rel. Skow v. Citizens Security Mutual 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“It would seem that, once an order to bifurcate has been made, a trial on a coverage issue should be a relatively simple matter. We, therefore, encourage a court which has ordered bifurcation to expedite the coverage issue by placing the trial on its calendar at an early date to assist in avoiding a needlessly protracted claim against the insured.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Roger Choinsky v. Germantown School District Board of Education · Kreuger International, Inc. v. Federal Insurance
“insurer breaches the duty to defend by requiring the insured to incur attorney fees to defend ... on the issue of liability and to litigate coverage simultaneously.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 385 Wis. 2d 213 - Steadfast Ins. Co. v. Greenwich Ins. Co. · 386 Wis. 2d 285 - Choinsky v. Germantown Sch. Dist. Bd.
“Awarding attorney fees, as we did in Elliott , should not be the usual result.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 385 Wis. 2d 213 - Steadfast Ins. Co. v. Greenwich Ins. Co. · 386 Wis. 2d 285 - Choinsky v. Germantown Sch. Dist. Bd.

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.