213 Cal. App. 3d 41 - Merced Mutual Insurance v. Mendez’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 201 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably 52 Cal. 3d 1009 - J. C. Penney Casualty Insurance v. M. K. (1991), 12 Cal. App. 4th 715 - Shell Oil Co. v. Winterthur Swiss Insurance (1993)
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 85 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 65 Cal. 2d 263 - Gray v. Zurich Insurance Co. · 22 Cal. 3d 865 - Clemmer v. Hartford Insurance Co. · 30 Cal. 3d 800 - Reserve Insurance Co. v. Pisciotta · 41 Cal. 3d 903 - Producers Dairy Delivery Co. v. Sentry Insurance · 15 Cal. 3d 143 - People v. Mayberry
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 201 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n accident ... is never present when the insured performs a deliberate act unless some additional, unexpected, independent, and unforeseen happening occurs that produces the damage.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage“In a declaratory relief action to determine the insurer's obligations under the policy, the burden is on the insured initially to prove an event is a claim within the scope of the basic coverage.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n its plain and ordinary sense, 'accidental' means 'arising form extrinsic causes[;] occurring unexpectedly or by chance[; or] happening without intent or through carelessness.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.