John Doe v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently June 2006 · most notably Bryant v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance (1965), Booth v. Fireman's Fund Insurance Company (1968)
8 federal appellate · 80 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Creteau v. Phoenix Assurance Co. of New York · State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Duncan · Fidelity Insurance, Trust & Safe Deposit Co. v. Shenandoah Valley Railroad · Violett v. City Council of Alexandria · Lilley v. Simmons
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the establishment of legal liability on the unknown uninsured motorist.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is universally recognized that ‘due process of law’ requires that a person be given notice and a reasonable opportunity to be heard before an impartial tribunal before any binding decree or order may be entered affecting his right to liberty or property. But this does not mean that the legislature in its discretion may not prescribe the kind of notice and the manner in which it shall be given if it is reasonable under all the circumstances and affords the party affected a reasonable opportunity to be heard. Violett v. City Council of Alexandria, 92 Va. 561, 567, 570 , 23 S. E. 909, 912 , 53 Am. St. Rep. 825 , 31 L. R. A. 382; Ward Co. v. Henderson-White Co., 107 Va. 626, 630, 631, 635 , 59 S. E. 476, 478, 480 ; A. S. White & Co. v. Jordan, 124 Va. 465, 466-471 , 98 S. E. 24 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Moreover, the insurance company issued its policy in accordance with the statute, § 38.1-381 (b), which requires all automobile bodily injury liability and property damage liability insurance policies to contain an endorsement or provisions undertaking to pay to the insured, within certain prescribed limits, all sums which he shall be legally entitled to recover for bodily injury and property damage from the owner or operator of an uninsured motorist vehicle; and under the provisions of the statute, § 38.1-381 (c), and the endorsement on the policy the plaintiff is an insured covered by the policy. By accepting the risk under this coverage the insurance company received an additional premium from the named insured and became entitled to share in the uninsured motorist fund created by statute requiring all persons registering an uninsured motor vehicle to pay each year a fee * * *. “To permit the insurance company, which is allowed to file pleadings and have control over the proceedings through John Doe, to escape liability on the constitutional ground asserted would allow it to escape a risk which it has accepted, under the requirement of § 38.1-381(b) and to become unjustly enriched.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.