Graham v. Gardner’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2001
2 federal appellate · 19 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 Washington National Insurance v. Craddock · August Prange & Bankers Trust Co. v. International Life Insurance · Newbill v. Union Indemnity Co. · State Ex Rel. Prudential Insurance Co. of America v. Shain · 225 Mo. App. 712 - Ash-Grove Lime & Portland Cement Co. v. Southern Surety 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he general rule is that the doctrine[] of ... estoppel based upon the conduct of the insurer [is] not available to bring within the coverage of a policy risks not covered by its terms, or risks expressly excluded therefrom.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In Missouri the coverage of a policy cannot be extended by waiver.”
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.