McCarthy v. Rendle’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
8 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2003 · most notably Houran, Admr. v. Preferred Acc. Ins. Co. of N.Y. (1938), St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance v. House (1989)
8 district · 43 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 Hatch v. United States Casualty Co. · H. P. Hood & Sons v. Maryland Casualty Co. · Johnson's Case · Anoka Lumber Co. v. Fidelity & Casualty Co. · Carroll's Case
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 occurrence of an accident and injury, however slight, may result in litigation, even in protracted litigation. It is the experience of every defender of causes that it is a matter of first importance to become possessed of all material facts and of the names and residences of all known witnesses at the earliest possible moment, as facts may be forgotten or distorted and witnesses may go beyond reach.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parrish v. Phillips“It is plain that the fact, that the insured has a reasonable and bona fide doubt as to the existence of any injury or of any liability, cannot be used to deprive the insurer of his contractual right to have an immediate notice of the occurrence of an accident, regardless of the damages that may be claimed to flow from that accident.”
1 later decision 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.