Town Crier, Inc. v. Hume’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2018
3 federal appellate · 6 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Cheatle v. Rudd's Swimming Pool Supply Co. · Reisen v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co. · St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance v. S. L. Nusbaum & Co. · Ayres v. Harleysville Mutual Casualty Co.
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.
“an insurer's duty to defend is determined solely by the allegations in the pleadings”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“manifestly disappears if, assuming the claims were to succeed, the insured would have no duty to indemnify.”
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.