State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company v. David Perrin, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company v. Vivian M. Vaughn and Vivian M. Vaughn, Administratrix of the Estate of Charles Eugene Vaughn, Deceased, Intervenor-Defendants-Appellants’s Empirical Analysis
331 F.2d 565 · 1964
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 1997
5 federal appellate · 2 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 Hogston v. Bell · Gendron v. Calvert Fire Ins. Co. · Medford v. Pacific National Fire Insurance · 13 Wash. 2d 263 - Trinity Universal Insurance v. Willrich · Leslie v. Standard Accident Insurance
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a term of vague and uncertain meaning, which it pertains to the lawmaking power to define, and courts are apt to encroach upon the domain of that branch of the government if they characterize a transaction as invalid because it is contrary to public policy, unless the transaction contravenes some positive statute or some well-established rule of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.