American Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. London & Edinburgh Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
354 F.2d 214 · 1965
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 18 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Heyman Associates No. 1 v. Insurance Co. of Pennsylvania (1995), Jacklin v. Commissioner (1982)
59 federal appellate · 18 district · 10 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 Cardillo v. United States · Textile Workers Union v. Darlington Manufacturing Co. · S. J. Groves & Sons Co. v. Ohio Turnpike Commission · Hindes v. United States
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Not merely must the historic facts be free of controversy but also there must be no controversy as to the inferences to be drawn from them. It is often the case that although the basic facts are not in dispute, the parties nevertheless disagree as to the inferences which may properly be drawn. Under such circumstances the case is not one to be decided on a motion for summary judgment.””
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“susceptible of two reasonable interpretations.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not 'establish that there is no issue of fact'”
2 later decisions 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.