Taft v. Cerwonka’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2004 · most notably Nationwide Insurance v. Gode (1982), Lopez Ex Rel. Estate of Lopez v. Foundation Reserve Insurance (1982)
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 22 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 Barbato v. Epstein · Blocker v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · Safeco Insurance v. Vetre · Tucker v. Government Employees Insurance Co. · Kemp v. Allstate 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are careful to limit our holding on this issue to cases factually similar to the one at bar, for we foresee and rue the day when our reasoning may be twisted to achieve an absurd result. For example, what is the result to be if a plaintiff was injured while riding in an automobile which was insured as only one of a fleet of cars? We defer decision on this and related issues until a case with the appropriate factual setting presents itself for review.” 433 A.2d at 219 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is reasonable to expect the same coverage where comparable premium dollars are paid to insure the same two cars, for convenience, under a single policy. A combination coverage should not be the predicate for an exclusion of coverage. Such a result would allow a simple change in form to defeat the insured’s reasonable expectation, as well as the substance of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The Vital Statistics of the United States (Life Tables)’’ or”
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.