Bearden v. Rucker’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Forbes v. Harleysville Mutual Insurance (1991), Vaiarella v. Hanover Insurance (1991)
39 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 Arceneaux v. Domingue · 407 So. 2d 401 - Bond v. Commercial Union Assur. Co. · 26 Utah 2d 161 - American States Ins. Co., Western Pac. Div. v. Walker · Hall v. Godchaux · Crossett v. St. Louis Fire and Marine Insurance 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“membership in a group rather than an attachment to a building.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he real test is whether the absence of the party of interest from the household of the alleged insured is intended to be permanent or only temporaryi.e., whether there is physical absence coupled with the intent not to return.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he question of whether a spouse is a "resident of the same household" as the spouse named in the policy, in the context of whether the former remains covered under the family automobile policy issued to the named spouse, is not solely dependent upon whether the couple is living under the same roof. Rather the emphasis is upon whether there remains "a membership in a group rather than an attachment to a building;" and it is "a matter of intention and choice" rather than one of location.”
5 later decisions 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.