59 Cal. 2d 21 - Sabella v. Wisler’s Empirical Analysis

1963

Citation profile

465

cited by 465 later decisions

states following

October 2021

most recently cited

56 federal appellate · 12 district · 319 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 465 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably 63 Cal. 2d 9 - Seely v. White Motor Co. (1965), 10 Cal. 3d 94 - State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Partridge (1973)

56 federal appellate · 12 district · 319 state decisions — followed in 22 states

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 49 Cal. 2d 647 - Biakanja v. Irving · 55 Cal. 2d 857 - Stewart v. Cox · Brooks v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · Ransom v. Penn Mutual Life Insurance · Prickett v. Royal Ins. Co. Ltd.

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 465 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“In determining whether a loss is within an exception in a policy, where there is a concurrence of different causes, the efficient cause--the one that sets others in motion--is the cause to which the loss is to be attributed ....”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Suburban Water Systems v. National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh Pa · 48 Cal. 3d 395 - Garvey v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.
“An insurer is liable for a loss of which a peril insured against was the proximate cause, although a peril not contemplated by the contract may have been a remote cause of the loss; but he is not liable for a loss of which the peril insured against was only a remote cause.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 48 Cal. 3d 395 - Garvey v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. · State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Martin
“When a loss is caused by a combination of a covered and specifically excluded risks, the loss is covered if the covered risk was the efficient proximate cause of the loss,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Allan Ghitterman Susan Rose v. Chubb Group of Insurance Companies Federal Insurance Company Federal Insurance Company · 48 Cal. 3d 395 - Garvey v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.

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.