Allen v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably State v. Indrisano (1994), State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Wilson (1989)
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 35 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 Pickering v. American Employers Insurance · Morin v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · Morrell v. Lalonde · Ziegelmayer v. Allstate Insurance · Murphy v. United Steelworkers Local No. 5705
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.
““Those courts that have [denied recovery] emphasize that coverage would defeat the purpose of punitive damages, which is to punish and to deter others from acting similarly; and allowing coverage serves no useful purpose since, supposedly, the plaintiff had been made whole by the award of compensatory damages. Again, to allow coverage, it has been said, passes on to the other premium payers the punishment intended for the defendant and creates (1) a conflict of interest between the insurer and the insured and (2) a conflict between the rule permitting the jury to consider a defendant’s financial standing in fixing the amount of punitive damages and the principle that the insurance coverage would not be revealed to the jury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`evidence of such willfulness, recklessness or wickedness, on the part of the party at fault, as amount[s] to criminality, that * * * ought to be punished.'”
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.