Ward v. Cook United, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably 33 Ohio St. 3d 75 - Griffey v. Rajan (1987), State Ex Rel. K-Mart Corp. v. Holliger (1999)
23 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 International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Casper v. Lee · Tasea Investment Corp. v. Dale · Morrow v. Caloric Appliance Corporation · State Ex Rel. Minihan v. Aronson
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Reason and logic render impossible the acceptance of any real distinction between the inexcusable neglect of a lawyer (held in Missouri to be imputable to his client) and the inexcusable neglect of a claims manager and attorney for the defendant’s insurer. Both occupy a contractual relationship with the client, the prime purpose of which is to handle the litigation within the framework of judicial proceedings. But even of more significant force is that by undertaking such responsibilities they also assume an obligation to third parties interested in the matter and to the courts administering and judicially determining the controversy.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The summons and petition shall be served together. Service shall be made as follows: (3) Upon a domestic or foreign corporation or upon a partnership, or other unincorporated association, when by law it may be sued as such, by delivering a copy of the summons and of the petition to an officer, partner, a managing or general agent, or by leaving the copies at any business office of the defendant with the person having charge thereof, or to any other agent authorized by appointment or required by law to receive service of process and, if the agent is one authorized by statute to receive service and the statute so requires, by also mailing a copy to the defendant,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Such facts, without more, clearly establish a lack of diligence and ordinary prudence on the part of Harlan (the Claims Manager, agent and attorney), a responsible official of Zurich (the insurance carrier) * * *” (material in parenthesis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hughes v. Christian
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.