Meyers v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Greer v. Zurich Insurance Company (1969), State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Worthington (1968)
6 federal appellate · 31 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 Henry Heide, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board · Wendorff v. Missouri State Life Insurance · Western Casualty & Surety Co. v. Coleman · Rochon v. Preferred Accident Insurance · State Ex Rel. Security Mutual Life Insurance v. Allen
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Her] rights are no greater and no less than the insured's would have been in an action between the insured and the insuror, if the insured had paid the judgment to the injured party.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * Appellant insists that the condition of cooperation was a condition precedent and the breach thereof prejudiced the garnishee, hence garnishee was not obligated to these plaintiffs on account of said policy of insurance.””
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.