545 F. Supp. 175 - Klein v. Salama’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2014
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Lee v. Ætna Casualty & Surety Co. · Goldberg v. Lumber Mutual Casualty Insurance · Prashker v. United States Guarantee Co. · Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Village of Hempstead · Lionel Freedman, Inc. v. Glens Falls Insurance
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen an affirmative act ... of the insured may negate coverage by the policy, the loyalty of any attorney who might defend such action is divided. On the one hand the attorney’s duty to the insured is to try to defeat recovery on any ground, on the other his duty to the insurance company is to defeat recovery only on grounds as might render the insurance company liable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“if [complaints] assert facts which raise the possibility of recovery, however remote, the insurer has an obligation to defend”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“by permitting the insured to choose his own counsel and by requiring the insurer to pay the reasonable fees of that counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.