Microtec Research, Inc. v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
40 F.3d 968 · 1994
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably QSP, Inc. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. (2001), The Frog Switch Manufacturing Co Inc in No 98-7552 v. The Travelers Insurance Company the Frog Switch & Manufacturing Co Inc in No 98-7553 (1999)
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 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 65 Cal. 2d 263 - Gray v. Zurich Insurance Co. · 2 Cal. 4th 1254 - Bank of the West v. Superior Court · Jesinger v. Nevada Federal Credit Union · Fu-Kong Tzung Jean Tzung v. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company, and Does 1 Through 100, Inclusive · Iolab Corporation v. Seaboard Surety Company
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is now the clearly established law in California ....that the injury for which coverage is sought must be caused by the advertising itself.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the tortfeasor does some wrongful act and then advertises it, the harm caused by the wrongful act alone is not within the scope of advertising injury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“harm ....is allegedly caused by misappropriation of the [trade secret], not by the advertising itself.”
3 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.