Reid v. Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Brookside Mobile Home Park, Ltd. v. Peebles (2002), Jeffs v. Stubbs (1998)
64 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 Lindsey v. Normet · State v. Walker · Scharf v. BMG Corp. · Frankel v. Heym · Acton v. Deliran
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'To mount a successful challenge to the correctness of a trial court's findings of fact, an appellant must first marshal all the evidence supporting the finding and then demonstrate that the evidence is legally insufficient to support the findings even in viewing it in the light most favorable to the court below.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Findings of fact, whether based on oral or documentary evidence, shall not be set aside unless clearly erroneous, and due regard shall be given to the opportunity of the trial court to judge the credibility of the witnesses.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Child v. Child · Austin v. Bingham“'policy disfavoring contractual penalties.'”
5 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.