Drennen v. Wren’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 2019
3 federal appellate · 18 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 Evergreens v. Nunan · State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins. v. Coughran · Caterpillar Tractor Co. v. International Harvester Co. · State Ex Rel. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Craig · 224 Mo. App. 285 - Finkle v. Western Automobile 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We recognize that certain issues between insurer and insured, e.g., fraud in the procurement of the policy or breach of an essential condition, are not litigable in the main case against the insured in a negligence action * * * and that such issues would survive inter partes an adverse judgment in the main suit.”
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.