Pehle v. Farm Bureau Life Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
397 F.3d 897 · 2005
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2025
4 federal appellate · 10 district · 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · 17 Cal. 3d 425 - Tarasoff v. Regents of University of California · Gebser v. Lago Vista Independent School District · Lehman Brothers v. Schein · Adler v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f an insurance company, through independent investigation by it or a third party for purposes of determining policy eligibility, discovers that an applicant is infected with HIV, the company has a duty to disclose to the applicant informa tion sufficient to cause a reasonable applicant to inquire further.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the best position to guard against . . . injury.”
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.