Hornaday v. Sun Life Insurance Co. of America’s Empirical Analysis
597 F.2d 90 · 1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 2010
2 federal appellate · 1 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 15 Cal. 3d 111 - Smith v. Westland Life Insurance · Tripp v. the Reliable Life Insurance Co. · 167 Ind. App. 619 - Kaiser v. National Farmers Union Life Insurance · 171 Ind. App. 56 - Monumental Life Insurance Company v. Hakey · Youker v. Gulley
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[I]f the insured successfully avoids contact with the insurer, insurance coverage is in effect indefinitely regardless of the amount of consideration paid.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. Thomas
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.