J. F. White Engineering Corporation, Joseph F. White, Sr., Orcelia K. White, and Joseph F. White, Jr. v. General Insurance Company of America, General Insurance Company of America, Cross-Appellant v. J. F. White Engineering Corporation, Joseph F. White, Sr., Orcelia K. White, and Joseph F. White, Jr., Cross-Appellees’s Empirical Analysis
351 F.2d 231 · 1965
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2004
5 federal appellate · 3 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 Morrison v. Goodspeed · Valley Development Co. v. Weeks · Holland v. American Founders Life Ins. Co. of Denver · Nichoalds v. McGlothlin · Lynch v. Call
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“while [the surety] was not required to permit the contractor to complete the contract, if it believed that in the exercise of reasonable diligence and precaution [the principal] ... should have been employed to complete the project, the jury should reduce or deny recovery in the amount which it believed could have been saved by so doing”
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.