Mid-States Insurance v. America Fidelity & Casualty Co.’s Empirical Analysis
234 F.2d 721 · 1956
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2008
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 Smith v. Ayer · 76 Cal. App. 2d 50 - Anderson v. Thacher · 63 Cal. App. 362 - Arp v. Blake · Pohl v. Mills · United Gas Corp. v. Guillory
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.
“At any time after commencement of the action a defending party, as a third-party plaintiff, may cause a summons and complaint to be served upon a person not a party to the action who is or may be liable to the third-party plaintiff for all or part of the plaintiff’s claim against the third-party plaintiff_”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.