Jernigan v. Allstate Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
269 F.2d 353 · 1959
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Northwestern National Casualty Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin v. Edward A. McNulty and Walter Scott Smith (1962), Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company v. Roberts (1964)
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 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 Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Co. v. Elbert · West v. Monroe Bakery, Inc. · Farm Bureau Mut. Automobile Ins. v. Hammer · Georgia Cas. Co. v. Alden Mills · Beverage v. Farm Bureau Mutual Automobile Insurance
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To pay on behalf of the insured all sums which the insured shall become legally obligated to pay as damages because of injury arising out of (a) Malpractice, error or mistake of the insured . . . " 3 Since we reach our decision on the basis of this second question, we merely note the Florida statute defining malpractice insurance in terms of "negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McFarling v. Azar““Assault and Battery. Assault and battery shall be deemed an accident unless committed by or at the direction of the insured". (Italics supplied throughout the above quotations.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Esmond v. Liscio“. .. under the general law which the courts of Louisiana would probably follow, the injury and property damage were caused by accident .... ( 269 F.2d at 355 )”
1 later decision 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.