Buzzard v. McDanel’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Buzzard v. Farmers Ins. Co., Inc. (1991), Oulds v. Principal Mutual Life Insurance (1993)
14 federal appellate · 20 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 Christian v. American Home Assurance Co. · McCorkle v. Great Atlantic Insurance Co. · Uptegraft v. Home Insurance Co. · Manis v. Hartford Fire Insurance Co. · Umholtz v. City of Tulsa
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“had a good faith belief, at the time its performance was requested, that it had a justifiable reason for withholding payment under the policy.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“Buzzard I "), to support her position that there can be a valid bad faith claim even in the absence of coverage under the underlying policy. There, the Oklahoma Supreme Court issued a writ of prohibition to prevent a trial court from requiring a trial on the issue of whether the insureds were legally entitled to recover from the allegedly underinsured tortfeasor (with whom the insureds had already settled), before submitting to the jury the question of the UM insurer's bad faith refusal to honor the insureds' UM claim. In so doing, the court noted that "it is not the question of whether [the insureds] would be legally entitled to recover [from the allegedly underinsured tortfeasor] which is the controlling issue in this action on bad faith refusal, but whether [the UM insurer], at the time [the insureds] made their claim, was in possession of information to establish that its refusal to pay was in good faith.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“no authority ... to require [the insureds] to submit to a separate trial as to the comparative fault of the [uninsured motorist].”
2 later decisions 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.