Aetna Life and Casualty Co. v. Ford Motor Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 22 Cal. 3d 1 - Davis v. Air Technical Industries, Inc. (1978), 10 Cal. App. 4th 1484 - Peter Culley & Associates v. Superior Court (1992)
7 federal appellate · 22 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 63 Cal. 2d 9 - Seely v. White Motor Co. · 227 Cal. App. 2d 69 - Herrero v. Atkinson · Maloney v. Rath · 246 Cal. App. 2d 639 - Gherna v. Ford Motor Co. · San Francisco Unified School District v. California Building Maintenance Co.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Equitable indemnity ... is not available to a volunteer. It extends to those who pay in performance of a legal duty in order to protect their own rights or interests .... However, one acting in good faith in making payment under a reasonable belief that it is necessary to his protection is entitled to indemnity ... even though it develops that he in fact had no interest to protect....””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Indemnity] applies in cases in which one party pays a debt for which another is primarily liable and which in equity and good conscience should have been paid by the latter party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The ultimate determination of whether or not indemnity should be allowed depends upon the circumstances of each case.”
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.