Sheehan v. Goriansky’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Quincy Mutual Fire Insurance v. Abernathy (1984), Worcester Insurance v. Fells Acres Day School, Inc. (1990)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 60 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Commonwealth v. Welansky · Messersmith v. . American Fidelity Co. · Miller v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Lunt v. Aetna Life Insurance Co. of Hartford · 134 Ohio St. 241 - Rothman v. Metropolitan Casualty Ins.
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.
““The verdict and the judgment could have been based upon any one or more of three grounds of liability, and one of them was not covered by the policy. Since the precise ground of liability was not determined in the action at law, the parties were entitled to litigate that ground in this suit in order to determine whether the death was within the coverage. [ Citing cases. ] ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“which is only constructively intentional does not, for that reason alone, fall outside the category of an injury 'caused by accident'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“See Sheehan v. Goriansky, 72 N.E.2d 538, 543 (Mass. 1947) (determining that wanton or reckless conduct,”
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.