Guin v. Ha’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 519 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 528 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Wanberg v. Wanberg (1983), State v. Coon (1999)
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 519 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Crisci v. Security Insurance · Comunale v. Traders & General Insurance · Busik v. Levine · State v. Phillips · 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 528 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“adopt the rule of law that is most persuasive in light of precedent, reason, and policy.”
61 later decisions quote this exact passage“In every contract ... there is an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing... .”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“The effect of allowing prejudgment interest in an amount beyond policy , limits would be to force an insurance company to acquiesce to a plaintiffs demand at an early stage of the proceedings where it, may have a meritorious defense, rather than run the risk of paying a large amount of prejudgment interest due to the delays engendered by crowded dockets should the plaintiff eventually recover.”
2 later decisions 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.