Blair v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America’s Empirical Analysis
472 F.2d 1356 · 1972
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 9 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2001 · most notably Lee v. Flintkote Co. (1979), United States v. Bland (1972)
10 federal appellate · 9 district · 7 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 292
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York v. Hilton-Green · Phillips v. Negley · New York Life Insurance v. Fletcher · Lumber Underwriters v. Rife
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defense of material misrepresentation, however, is in its true nature an equitable defense. . . . [I]n each of the Maryland cases, the decision adverse to the claimant came after trial and a full development of the facts. Presumably, even in Maryland, a claimant could advance a reason for nonreading sufficient to enable him to overcome the defense of misstatement. An examination of the authorities reveals that American courts have adopted a number of different positions when confronted with the question posed in this case. Some, like Maryland, have placed a heavy and perhaps an almost insurmountable burden on the applicant to read and be responsible for all statements in or omissions from the application submitted by him.”
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.