241 Cal. App. 2d 376 - Lippert v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably 61 Cal. 4th 813 - DKN Holdings LLC v. Faerber (2015), Weinisch v. Sawyer (1991)
5 federal appellate · 31 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 46 Cal. 2d 690 - Primm v. Primm · Berniker v. Berniker · 21 Cal. 2d 636 - Panos v. Great Western Packing Co. · 47 Cal. 2d 398 - Crogan v. Metz · Wilbur v. Wilbur
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While an insurance agent may be personally liable to the insured for damages which are the result of the agent’s negligent failure to insure property as contracted, the agent’s personal liability is dependent upon the extent of the disclosure of his agency. The rule is correctly stated in Corpus Juris Secundum: “[Liability to the ... insured for acts or contracts of an insurance agent within the scope of his agency, with a full disclosure to the principal, rests on the company, ...” This requirement was upheld in Gibbs v. Home Ins. Co. of New York [ 252 A.D. 805 , 298 N.Y.S. 856 ] The plaintiff sought a judgment reforming an insurance policy issued by the insurance company, and in the alternative, damages against the agent for negligently failing to provide an adequate insurance policy. The court held: “Where an agent is duly constituted and names his principal and contracts in his name and does not exceed his authority, the principal is responsible and not the agent.””
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.