Pope v. Prudential Ins.’s Empirical Analysis
29 F.2d 185 · 1928
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2004
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 United States Mutual Accident Ass'n v. Barry · Lewis v. Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corp. · Matter of Keator v. . Rock Plaster Manufacturing Company · Caldwell v. Travelers Insurance Co. · Western Commercial Travelers' Ass'n v. Smith
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.
““There is no occasion to deny that a death, so resulting, may be in a very proper sense an accidental death; but there is obviously a substantial distinction between an accidental result and the result of an accidental cause. We think it not only to be the natural meaning of the words, as they would be understood by the ordinary policyholder, but the right construction thereof, supported by the weight of authority, that when the insured or those acting with his consent did precisely what they intended to do and in the way which they intended, knowing that injury often did result and might be unavoidable, and where there was no slip or misstep in the performance, and where there was no ignorance of any material factor, this conduct cannot be said to have been the accidental cause of the injury which unfortunately may follow.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The evidence recited, what the court had said in its charge to the jury, and the comments of the Supreme Court, all indicate that the approved theory of recovery was that there had been some slip or mishap attending Barry’s act in jumping to the ground, whereby his intended act was, as to the manner of its execution, transformed into an unintended one.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“bodily injuries effected solely through external violence and accidental causes”
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.