Fetch v. Quam’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2012
1 district · 12 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 Keel v. MFA Insurance Company · 170 Ind. App. 45 - Vernon Fire & Casualty Insurance v. Matney Ex Rel. Matney · Heisner v. Jones · State Ex Rel. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Craig · McIntosh v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Of course, conflicts of interest will exist when an insurer intervenes in an action between its insured- and an uninsured motorist- However, this is like the “common situation where the carrier has coverage on two insureds involved in the same accident.” By equating this situation with a contest between two insureds of the same insurer, the trial court can defuse these conflicts by requiring the insurer to furnish independent counsel to represent the insured on the insurer’s claims and defenses, or by requiring reimbursement of the insured’s reasonable attorney fees for those services.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chatterton v. Walker““Upon timely application anyone must be permitted to intervene in an action if: ... the applicant claims an interest relating to the property or transaction that is the subject of the action and the applicant is so situated that the disposition of the action may as a practical matter impair or impede the applicant’s ability to protect that interest, unless the applicant’s interest is adequately represented by existing parties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fisher v. Fisher“'the purpose of mandatory uninsured-motorist insurance is”
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.