Watson v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 14 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably 14 Kan. App. 2d 158 - Smith v. Blackwell (1989), Wiles v. American Family Life Assurance Co. (2015)
3 federal appellate · 14 district · 30 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 Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance v. Carr · Jameson v. Farmers Mutual Automobile Insurance · Henry v. Johnson · Southards v. Central Plains Insurance · Brown v. Continental Casualty 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as they would appear to a reasonably prudent man having a duty to investigate in good faith and to determine the true facts of the controversy.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“40-256. Attorney fees in actions on insurance policies; exception. That in all actions hereafter commenced, in which judgment is rendered against any insurance company as defined in K.S.A. 40-201, and including in addition thereto any fraternal benefit society and any reciprocal or interinsurance exchange on any policy or certificate of any type or kind of insurance, if it appear from the evidence that such company, society or exchange has refused without just cause or excuse to pay the full amount of such loss, the court in rendering such judgment shall allow the plaintiff a reasonable sum as an attorney’s fee for services in such action, including proceeding upon appeal, to be recovered and collected as a part of the costs: Provided, however, That when a tender is made by such insurance company, society or exchange before the commencement of the action in which judgment is rendered and the amount recovered is not in excess of such tender no such costs shall be allowed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is to protect the insurer's interest and prevent collusion between the insured and the injured person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Geer v. Eby
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.