Bobich v. Oja’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 31 district · 174 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 243 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Bituminous Casualty Corp. v. Bartlett (1976), Henning Nelson Construction Co. v. Fireman's Fund American Life Insurance Co. (1986)
25 federal appellate · 31 district · 174 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 Tomlyanovich v. Tomlyanovich · Wyatt v. Wyatt · Motor Vehicle Casualty Co. v. Smith · Weis v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · Pickens 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 243 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be construed according to the terms the parties have used, and the language used must be given its ordinary and usual meaning so as to give effect to the intention of the parties as it appears from the contract.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Coverage D — Property Damage Liability — Except Automobile. [The insurer agrees] [t]o pay on behalf of the insured all sums which the insured shall become legally obligated to pay as damages because of injury to or destruction of property, including the loss of use thereof, caused by accident.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A policy and endorsements should be construed, if possible, so as to give effect to all provisions, but, where provisions in the body of the policy conflict with an endorsement or rider, the provision of the endorsement governs.”
2 later decisions 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.