Caspersen v. Webber’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 117 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably Associated Independent Dealers, Inc. v. Mutual Service Insurance Companies (1975), Continental Western Insurance v. Toal (1976)
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 117 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Northwestern National Casualty Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin v. Edward A. McNulty and Walter Scott Smith · Krueger v. Knutson · Smith v. Hubbard · Thill v. Modern Erecting Company · Newcomb v. Meiss
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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unless the insured has acted with intent to cause a bodily injury. When the act itself is intended but the resulting injury is not, the insurance exclusion has no application.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]n injury is “expected or intended” from the standpoint of the insured if a reason for an insured’s act is to inflict bodily injury or “when the character of the act is such that an intention to inflict an injury can be inferred” as a matter of law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““. . . where the nature or character of the act is such that an intent to cause harm is thereby inferred as a matter of law.” 213 N.W.2d 330 .”
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.