Anthony v. Frith’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably Mazza v. Medical Mut. Ins. Co. of NC (1984), 168 W. Va. 172 - Hensley v. Erie Insurance Co. (1981)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 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 Northwestern National Casualty Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin v. Edward A. McNulty and Walter Scott Smith · Lazenby Ex Rel. Lazenby v. Universal Underwriters Insurance · 209 Pa. Super. 200 - Esmond v. LISCIO · Carroway v. Johnson · Universal Indemnity Insurance v. Tenery
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t was not against public policy to require the carrier to pay punitive damages.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Helen and Jerry Daughdrill had two automobile policies of insurance issued by State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company insuring their 1979 Aspen automobile. Under the Uninsured Motorist Endorsement of the first policy, the insureds were afforded bodily injury coverage in an amount not to exceed $25,000 per person, or $50,000 per accident, and property damage coverage in an amount not to exceed $5,000 per accident. The Uninsured Motorist Endorsement stated that State Farm would "pay damages for bodily injury and property damage an insured is legally entitled to collect from the owner or driver of an uninsured motor vehicle." ... While both policies would aggregate, or "stack," the inclusion of the other policy here is not necessary for a resolution of the issue of coverage. On February 14, 1981, in Pascagoula, Mississippi, while driving the vehicle covered by the insurance policies, Helen B. Daughdrill was struck from the rear by an automobile owned and operated by an uninsured motorist, Audie Hacker. As a result of this accident, she suffered personal injuries as well as property damage to her vehicle. Subsequent investigation revealed that Audie Hacker (1) was legally intoxicated at the time of the accident and (2) was operating his vehicle without a valid drivers license due to a prior conviction for driving while under the influence of alcohol. After this accident, the Daughdrills demanded from State Farm both actual and punitive damages under the Uninsured Motorist ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“all sums which the insured shall become legally obligated to pay.”
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.