Covill v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2021
8 district · 2 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 155 Cal. App. 2d 679 - Brown v. Guarantee Insurance · Bollinger v. Nuss · Gilley Ex Rel. Gilley v. Farmer · Bennett v. Conrady · Rector v. Husted
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f State Farm had more aggressively investigated [the plaintiff's] claim instead of relying past the point of all reason on [plaintiff's counsel] to voluntarily furnish all of the information allegedly necessary for adequate evaluation of the claim it would have known much earlier . . . that the risk of an excessive judgment was great.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it was not unreasonable for State Farm, having voiced its reasonable and specific requests for the medical information it felt was necessary to verify the claimant's injuries, to rely upon the assurances of the plaintiff's attorneys that such information would be forthcoming.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“increasingly aware of the seriousness of [the plaintiff's] injuries,”
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.