Jordan v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2007 · most notably Beaudoin v. Town Oil Co. (1988), Schurgast v. Schumann (1968)
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 16 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 Brown v. Cranston · Sporia v. Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines, Inc. · 232 Mo. App. 820 - Taverno v. American Auto Insurance · Dewalt v. State Farm Mut. Automobile Ins. Co. of Bloomington · Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co. v. Ziffrin Truck Lines, Inc.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'... if permitted to become effective, should not operate ... [when] ... the third-party defendant is alleged to have breached its contract. According to the third-party complaint, [the insurer] has declined to perform the obligation of its undertaking in any way. It has refused to defend the defendants or third-party plaintiffs and has declined to meet the expenses contemplated by its contract. Under such circumstances it should not be permitted to interpose contractual provisions of a contract it has repudiated.' [7 F.R.D. at 142.]”
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.