Miller v. Shugart’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 32 district · 127 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 209 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably United Services Automobile Ass'n v. Morris (1987), Glenn v. Fleming (1990)
25 federal appellate · 32 district · 127 state decisions — followed in 19 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 Polk County v. Dodson · Prahm v. Rupp Construction Co. · Ralph E. Coblentz, as Administrator, D.B.N. Of the Estate of Edward Thomas Coblentz, Deceased v. American Surety Company of New York · Butler Bros. v. American Fidelity Co. · Juvland v. Plaisance
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 209 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“what a reasonably prudent person in the position of the defendant would have settled for on the merits of the plaintiff's claim.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage“If as here, the insureds are offered a settlement that effectively reheves them of any personal liability, at a time when their insurance coverage is in doubt, surely it cannot be said that it is not in their best interests to accept the offer. Nor, do we think, can the insurer who is disputing coverage compel the insureds to forego a settlement which is in their best interests.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[o]f course, the insurer escapes the risk if it should be successful on the coverage issue.”
6 later decisions 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.