Brown v. Candelora’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably Birth Center v. St. Paul Companies, Inc. (1999), Haugh v. Allstate Insurance (2003)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 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 46 Cal. 3d 287 - Moradi-Shalal v. Fireman's Fund Ins. Companies · Comunale v. Traders & General Insurance · McKnight v. Commonwealth · Styer v. Hugo · 17 Cal. 3d 937 - Murphy v. Allstate Insurance
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§ 8371. Actions on Insurance Policies In an action arising under an insurance policy, if the court finds that the insurer has acted in bad faith toward the insured, the court may take all of the following actions: (1) Award interest on the amount of the claim ... (2) Award punitive damages against insurer. (3) Assess court costs and attorney’s fees against the insurer.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Under settled Pennsylvania law, appellants cannot maintain a direct action against Nationwide since: (a) Appellants are strangers to the contract of insurance. See: Commonwealth, Department of General Services v. Celli-Flynn, 115 Pa.Cmwlth. 494, 498 , 540 A.2d 1365, 1368 (1988); Aetna Insurance Co. v. Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association Insurance Co., 456 F.Supp. 627, 634 (E.D.Pa.1978). See also: General Accident Insurance Co. v. Federal Kemper Insurance Co., 452 Pa.Super. 581, 589 , 682 A.2d 819, 822 (1996); Kranzush v. Badger State Mutual Casualty Co., 103 Wis.2d 56, 72 , 307 N.W.2d 256, 265 (1981). (b) Appellants are not third party beneficiaries of the contract of insurance between Mr. Yiambilis and Nationwide. See: Hicks v. Metropolitan Edison Co., 665 A.2d 529, 535 (Pa.Cmwlth.1995), all o. denied, 544 Pa. 638 , 675 A.2d 1253 (1996); Hughes v. Prudential Lines, 425 Pa.Super. 262, 268 , 624 A.2d 1063, 1067 (1993), allo. denied, 535 Pa. 647 , 633 A.2d 152 (1993); Strutz v. State Farm, Mutual Insurance Co., 415 Pa.Super. 371, 373-376 , 609 A.2d 569, 570-571 (1992), allo. denied, 532 Pa. 657 , 615 A.2d 1313 (1992); Rowe v. U.S. Fidelity and Guaranty Co., 421 F.2d 937, 939-940 (4th Cir.1970). Accord: Herrig v. Herrig, 844 P.2d 487, 492 (Wyo.1992) (“The third-party-beneficiary argument has been rejected by virtually every court to address the issue, and we join those courts today. See, e.g., Page v. Allstate Insurance Company, 126 Ariz. 258 , 614 P.2d 339 (Ct.App.1980); Scr”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Under Pennsylvania Law, as well as in the majority of American jurisdictions, an insured’s claims against his or her insurer, in the nature of breach of contract, breach of a fiduciary duty, and bad faith, as well as claims under section 8371 of the judicial code for punitive damages, counsel fees and interest, are assignable.”
1 later decision 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.