42 Cal. 3d 208 - Frommoethelydo v. Fire Insurance Exchange’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Love v. Fire Insurance Exchange (1990), 31 Cal. 4th 709 - Hassan v. Mercy American River Hospital (2003)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 69 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 9 Cal. 3d 566 - Gruenberg v. Aetna Insurance · 21 Cal. 3d 910 - Neal v. Farmers Insurance Exchange · 24 Cal. 3d 809 - Egan v. Mutual of Omaha Insurance · Northern Utilities, Inc. v. Public Service Commission · 40 Cal. 3d 870 - White v. Western Title 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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While an insurance company has no obligation under the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing to pay every claim its insured makes, the insurer cannot deny the claim 'without fully investigating the grounds for its denial.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]n insurer holds itself out as a fiduciary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`fails to deal fairly and in good faith with its insured by refusing, without proper cause, to compensate its insured for a loss covered by the policy, such conduct may give rise to a cause of action in tort for breach of an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing.'”
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.