Smith v. Cassida’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently April 2003 · most notably Pacific Indemnity Co. v. Interstate Fire & Casualty Co. (1985), Riccio v. American Republic Insurance (1997)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 38 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Brustein v. New Amsterdam Casualty Co. · Perkins v. Fireman's Fund Indemnity Co. · New Amsterdam Casualty Co. v. Hart · In Re Employers' Liability Assur. Corp. · Newman v. Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To us, the pertinent language of the policy is clear that the liability limit intended for bodily injury to one person covered all damages flowing from that one individual’s injuries, including the cost of care and the loss resulting from disability. The recoverable damages, direct and consequential, are essentially due to the bodily injury of one person. They may not be broken up in order to increase the liability limit provided for. The limit of liability applies to the person injured and not to the person suffering loss.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“policy ... must be read in entirety and the intent gathered from a consideration of the entire instrument”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Coverage C(2): The limit of bodily injury liability stated in the declarations as applicable to ‘each person’ is the limit of the Company’s liability for all damages sustained by one person in any one occurrence. The limit of such liability stated in the declarations as applicable to ‘each occurrence’ is, subject to the above provisions respecting each person, the total limit of the Company’s liability for all damages sustained by two or more persons in any one occurrence. Such limits of liability for all damages include damages for care and loss of services arising out of bodily injury, sickness or disease, including death at any time resulting therefrom.”
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.