Goldstein v. Bernstein’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably Sorensen v. Sorensen (1975), MASS. PROPERTY INS. UNDERWRITING ASS'N v. Norrington (1985)
12 federal appellate · 21 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 Rushing v. Commercial Casualty Insurance · Lorando v. Gethro · McLearn v. Hill · Sontag v. Galer · O'Roak v. Lloyds 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““After a cause of action has accrued to the injured persons against the insured, then the parties to the contract of insurance cannot by any release, agreement or collusion destroy the rights of the injured persons in the indemnity. G. L. (Ter.Ed.) c. 175, § 112. Lorando v. Gethro, 228 Mass. 181 , 117 N.E. 185 , 1 A.L.R. 1374 ; Spann v. Commercial Standard Ins. Co., 8 Cir., 82 F.2d 593 ; Rushing v. Commercial Casualty Ins. Co., 251 N.Y. 302 , 167 N.E. 450 ; Zimmerman v. Union Automobile Ins. Co., 133 Or. 600 , 291 P. 495 ; Graham v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co., 308 Pa. 534 , 162 A. 902 ; Bachman v. Monte, 326 Pa. 289 , 192 A. 485 ; Finkelberg v. Continental Casualty Co., 126 Wash. 543 , 219 P. 12 .””
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.