Lighting Fixture & Electric Supply Co. v. Continental Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
420 F.2d 1211 · 1969
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 198 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Brooks Jd v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida Inc (1997), Clemons v. Dougherty County (1982)
57 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Freeman v. Continental Gin Co. · National Labor Relations Board v. Smith Industries, Inc. · The Columbian Nat'l Life Ins. Co. v. Lanigan
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 198 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e believe that when an insurer and its customer agree that the insurer is to insure the owner of specified property against fire loss, it would be no less unconscionable to allow the insurer to avoid its obligation under their contract because the owner, whose particular identity is of no particular concern to the insurer, is incorrectly named in that contract than to allow such avoidance because the insurer in preparing the policy acted unmindful of facts it either knew or should have known.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'A summary judgment may be improper even though the basic facts are undisputed if the parties disagree regarding the material factual inferences that properly may be drawn from these facts', Lighting Fixture and Electric Supply Company v. Continental Insurance Company, 5 Cir., 1969, 420 F.2d 1211 , 1213.”
2 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.