Ezell v. Hayes Oilfield Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
693 F.2d 489 · 1982
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2007
15 federal appellate · 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 Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Wetzel · Standard Life Ins. Co. of Indiana v. Veal · Delhomme Industries, Inc. v. Houston Beechcraft, Inc. · Davis v. Humble Oil & Refining Company
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[provision of independent counsel or reimbursement for the insured’s choice of counsel and expenses ordinarily fulfills the duty to defend, and is particularly appropriate where ... there is a conflict of interest between the insurer and the insured.... Indeed, where there is a conflict of interest, ethical considerations may even require that the insurer provide counsel rather than participate in the defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he pretrial stipulation in this case that Mississippi law would apply, however, is not a contractual provision and is no more binding on us than any stipulation as to the content of Louisiana law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“parties to agree contractually to what state's law would be applied to resolution of contractual disputes”
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.