Bohlinger v. Zanger’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably United States v. Margiotta (1982), In Re the Arbitration Between Knickerbocker Agency, Inc. & Holz (1958)
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Grace v. American Cent Ins Co of St Louis · Gerseta Corporation v. Equitable Trust Co. · Allen v. German American Insurance · Indiana Insurance v. Hartwell · Hermann v. Niagara Fire Insururance
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any insurer which delivers in this state to any insurance broker ... a contract of insurance pursuant to the application or request of such broker, acting for an insured other than himself, shall be deemed to have authorized such broker to receive on its behalf payment of any premium which is due on such contract at the time of its issuance ... or any additional premium which becomes due or payable thereafter ..., provided such payment is received by such broker within ninety days after the due date of such premium....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Every insurance agent and every broker acting as such in this state shall be respon sible in a fiduciary capacity for all funds received or collected as insurance agent or insurance broker, and shall not, without the express consent of his or its principal, mingle any such funds with his or its own funds or with funds held by him or it in any other capacity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In liquidation, the liquidator for all practical purposes takes the place of the insolvent insurer. The liquidation order terminates the company’s existence. The liquidator takes immediate possession and control of the assets and proceeds to a liquidation of its affairs . . .””
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.