Barber v. Canela’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 2011
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Factory Mutual Liability Ins. Co. of Amer. v. Cooper
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is clear that § 27-7-2, which allows a direct action against an insurer when service against the insured cannot be obtained, is designed only to provide a remedy to the injured party and not to enlarge the liability of the insurer beyond the limits stated in the policy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“dependent upon the existence of liability of the insurer to the insured under the contract of insurance.”
2 later decisions 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.