457 So. 2d 936 - Griffin v. Ware’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2006 · most notably 525 So. 2d 746 - UHS-Qualicare, Inc. v. GULF COAST COM. HOSP., INC. (1987), 466 So. 2d 833 - Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Miss. v. Campbell (1984)
1 district · 10 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 9 Cal. 3d 566 - Gruenberg v. Aetna Insurance · 24 Cal. 3d 809 - Egan v. Mutual of Omaha Insurance · Northern Utilities, Inc. v. Public Service Commission · Timmons v. Royal Globe Insurance Co. · Progressive Casualty Insurance Company v. Keys
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... adjusters employed by an insurer, who were not parties to the agreement for insurance, are not subject to an implied duty of good faith and fair dealing to the insured.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(b) How Presented. Every defense, in law or fact, to a claim for relief in any pleading, whether a claim, counterclaim, cross-claim, or third-party claim, shall be asserted in the responsive pleading thereto if one is required, except that the following defenses may at the option of the pleader be made by motion: ... (6) failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted, ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The gravamen of the action against [Ware and his partner] was that they made false reports to their principal and thereby committed a tort____ Stated differently, [the Griffins] charge [Ware] with a tort because [Ware] breached an implied duty of good faith and fair dealing—”
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.