Scott v. Keever’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 10 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably Don's Building Supply, Inc. v. Onebeacon Insurance Co. (2008), National Union Fire Insurance v. Reno's Executive Air, Inc. (1984)
8 federal appellate · 10 district · 29 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 Crabb v. Swindler, Administratrix · Kendall Plumbing, Inc. v. St. Paul Mercury Insurance · Goforth v. Franklin Life Insurance · Bramlett v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · Kansas Farm Bureau Insurance v. Cool
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that the ladder was purchased by Mr. Scott during the term of the policy and that a cause of action for breach of warranty against Falco and/or others in the commercial chain accrued at that time is irrelevant to the coverage afforded by the policy and attached endorsements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o stretch the scope of `accident' backward in time to reach the date of the earliest initiation of any event which might be regarded as having a causal relation to the accident would introduce ambiguity where none now exists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“of an accident within the meaning of an indemnity policy is not the time the wrongful act was committed but the time when the complaining party was actually damaged.”
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.