Hitt v. Githens’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2004
2 federal appellate · 5 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 Eli Lilly & Co. v. Home Insurance Co. · 177 Ind. App. 299 - American States Insurance v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co. · Evans v. National Life Accident Insurance Co. · Cromer v. Sefton · Dairyland Insurance v. Kammerer
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f an insurer retains the premiums paid on a policy which it knows to be void ab initio ... the insurer will be estopped from denying liability....”
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.