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Bertelsen v. Allstate Insurance’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
November 2017
most recently cited

2 district · 14 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Discover Bank v. Stanley · Behrens v. Wedmore · Clark County v. Sioux Equipment Corp. · Phen v. Progressive Northern Insurance Co. · Mudlin v. Hills Materials 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “it cannot be liable for bad faith because [the issue was] a case of first impression for this Court”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 700 F. Supp. 2d 1141 - McELGUNN v. CUNA MUT. INS. SOC.
  2. “plain, unambiguous, and not susceptible to debate”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 700 F. Supp. 2d 1141 - McELGUNN v. CUNA MUT. INS. SOC.

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.