Wade II v. Emcasco Insurance Company’s Empirical Analysis
483 F.3d 657 · 2007
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 68 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Schrock v. Wyeth, Inc. (2013), Coll v. First American Title Insurance (2011)
18 federal appellate · 68 district · 6 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Huddleston v. Dwyer · 155 Cal. App. 2d 679 - Brown v. Guarantee Insurance · Glenn v. Fleming · Bollinger v. Nuss
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n doing so, it may seek guidance from decisions rendered by lower courts in the relevant state”
43 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the strength of the injured claimant’s case on the issues of liability and damages; (2) attempts by the insurer to induce the insured to contribute to a settlement; (3) failure of the insurer to properly investigate the circumstances so as to ascertain the evidence against the insured; (4) the insurer’s rejection of advice of its own attorney or agent; (5) failure of the insurer to inform the insured of a compromise offer; (6) the amount of financial risk to which each party is exposed in the event of a refusal to settle; (7) the fault of the insured in inducing the insurer’s rejection of the compromise offer by misleading it as to the facts; and (8) any other factors tending to establish or negate bad faith on the part of the insurer.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'Permitting an injured plaintiff's chosen timetable for settlement to govern the bad-faith inquiry would promote the customary manufacturing of bad-faith claims, especially in cases where an insured of meager means is covered by a policy of insurance which could finance only a fraction of the damages.' [Citation omitted.]”
2 later decisions 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.