White v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Frank v. Environmental Sanitation Management, Inc. (1985), Wescott v. Allstate Insurance (1979)
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 42 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 Yates v. United States · Landress v. Phoenix Mut Life Ins Co · Messersmith v. . American Fidelity Co. · Northwestern National Casualty Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin v. Edward A. McNulty and Walter Scott Smith · Evergreens v. Nunan
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, an admission, statement or act [conduct] inconsistent with the claim af-terwards asserted and sued on; [SJecond, action by the other party on the faith of such admission, statement or act; and [Tjhird, injury to such other party, resulting from allowing the first party to contradict or repudiate such admission, statement or act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“But neither policy nor principle excludes from the category of damages 'caused by accident' for which coverage is afforded by a liability insurance policy, even damage which might be, for other purposes, regard[ed] as constructively intentional or damage resulting from wanton and reckless conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“does not rest or depend upon the degree of care used, but upon the degree of danger existing with the best of care. So, in determining liability for the maintenance of a nuisance, whether defendant was negligent and what his intention, design or motive may have been alike became immaterial.”
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.