Lopez v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Yazzie v. Sullivent (1977), Martin v. Unit Rig & Equipment Co. (1983)
4 federal appellate · 49 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 Hastings v. . Westchester Fire Ins. Co. · Hepp v. Quickel Auto & Supply Co. · Kandelin v. Lee Moor Contracting Co. · United States Casualty Co. v. Timmerman · Reed v. Firemen's 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * the trjaj courj. reached the corréct result even though it did so by pursuing a false issue. The error, if any, in so doing does not harm the defendant.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The insurer will be taken to have appropriated the language . . . with a knowledge of the construction given it by the courts in [other types of] policies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'to make out the more probable hypothesis.'”
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.