Chiapetta v. Clark Associates’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably McAfee v. Cole (1994), Nevin v. Union Trust Co. (1999)
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 19 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 Kunz v. Buckeye Union Ins. · Myrick v. James · Austin v. Fulton Insurance Company · Hoffman v. Insurance Co. of North America · Bernier v. Raymark Industries, Inc.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[its] insurance policy must be looked to if [it] were to have relief for [its] loss. [Plaintiff] had therefore both reason and means to make an investigation into the extent of coverage on [August 6, 1980], the date of the loss, and cannot be heard to argue that [it] was not cognizant of any lack of coverage until [October 15, 1980].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Actions for ... malpractice of physicians ... shall be commenced within 2 years after the cause of action accrues.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Black v. Ward“the time the plaintiff sustains a judicially cognizable injury.”
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.