Pendleton v. Ricca’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2006
8 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 Villas, Inc. v. Reese · 152 So. 2d 577 - Mathews v. Marquette Casualty Company · Long v. Matthews · Commercial Credit Plan, Inc. v. Perry
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(c) A private passenger, farm or utility automobile ownership of which is acquired by the named insured during the policy period, provided (1) * * * * * (2) the company insures all private passenger, farm and utility automobiles owned by the named insured on the date of such acquisition and the named insured notifies the company during the policy period or within 30 days after the date of such acquisition of his election to make this and no other policy issued by the company applicable to such automobile, or (d) * * * * * * (emphasis ours)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Where the accident takes place within the notice period but before any notice has been given it has been generally held, on the theory that the requirement of notice is a condition subsequent rather than a condition precedent to extended coverage, that such coverage is automatically effected upon delivery of the new automobile and remains in effect until the end of the specified period, irrespective of whether or not notice has been given. That is, notice is not required to provide coverage which is automatic during the specified time period...."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The Plymouth was automatically covered under the terms of the policy the moment Joseph C. Ricca purchased it and such automatic coverage continued for a period of 30 days or until the end of the policy period, whichever was shorter, irrespective of notice to the insurer.”
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.