State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Bonwell’s Empirical Analysis
248 F.2d 862 · 1957
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably 258 Cal. App. 2d 465 - General of America Ins. Co. v. Lilly (1968), Bassler v. Arrowood (1974)
12 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 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 Brillhart v. Excess Insurance Co. of America · Kerotest Mfg Co v. C-O-Two Fire Equipment Co · Reiner v. United States · State Ex Rel. Farmers Mutuals Automobile Insurance v. Weber · Marshall's U. S. Auto Supply, Inc. v. Maryland Casualty 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * should not be exercised for the purpose of trying issues involved in cases already pending, especially where they can be tried with equal facility in such cases, or for the purpose of anticipating the trial of an issue in a court of coordinate jurisdiction. The object of the statute is to afford a new form of relief where needed, not to furnish a new choice of tribunals or to draw into the federal courts the adjudication of causes properly cognizable by courts of the states.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘An insurer’s duty to defend an action against the insured is measured by the allegations in the plaintiff’s pleadings and if such pleadings state facts bringing the injury within the coverage of the policy, the insurer must defend, irrespective of the insured’s ultimate liability to the plaintiff. * *”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Wise judicial administration, giving regard to conservation of judicial resources and comprehensive disposition of litigation, does not counsel rigid mechanical solution of such problems.” Kerotest Mfg. Co. v. C-O-Two Fire Equipment Co., 342 U.S. 180, 183 , 72 S.Ct. 219, 221 , 96 L.Ed. 200 (1951).”
3 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.