John R. Russell v. The Prudential Insurance Company of America’s Empirical Analysis
437 F.2d 602 · 1971
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2004
7 federal appellate · 5 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 Ayres v. New York Life Ins. Co. · Lakos v. Saliaris · 186 So. 2d 861 - Rambin v. Continental Casualty Company · Pennington v. Colonial Pipeline Co.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he law is well settled ... that the term “total disability” does not mean absolute helplessness on the part of the insured; benefits may be recovered where the insured cannot perform all the substantial and material acts necessary to the prosecution of his business or occupation in the usual and customary manner.”
1 later decision 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.