Clay v. Equifax, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
762 F.2d 952 · 1985
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Trw Inc v. Adelaide Andrews (2001), Sunamerica Corporation v. Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (1996)
24 federal appellate · 2 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 15 U.S.C. § 1681 · 15 U.S.C. § 1681P
Relies on Carter v. Stanton · Van T. Junkins & Associates, Inc. v. U.S. Industries, Inc. · Huckeby v. Frozen Food Express · 16 Fair empl.prac.cas. 307, 15 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 7941 Jose Hector Munoz v. International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture MacHine Operators of the United States and Canada · Erco Industries Limited v. Seaboard Coast Line Railroad 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although we recognize that insurers owe a duty of good faith to their insureds,, we do not believe that duty is equivalent to the confidential relationship envisioned by the Alabama courts [so as to require the insurance company to divulge a potential cause of action for defamation to an insured].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“may consider pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, admissions on file, affidavits, oral testimony, matters subject to judicial notice, stipulations and concessions, and other materials admissible in evidence or otherwise usable at trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“for entry of reasons in support of the granting of ... summary judgment.”
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.