Western World Insurance v. Harford Mutual Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
784 F.2d 558 · 1986
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2011
5 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on City of Oklahoma City v. Tuttle · Brohawn v. Transamerica Insurance · Withers v. Levine · Tidewater Equipment Co. v. Reliance 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Harford admits that [the language of the complaint] does create the potential of coverage under its policy with the City, but asserts that an insurer can also look to the actual facts surrounding an event to determine whether or not coverage exists, and consequently to discern whether the insured has the duty to defend. We find no case law directly supporting Harford’s contentions and consider the insurer’s position to be in clear conflict with the Court of Appeals of Maryland’s decision in Brohawn.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The sole controlling factor relating to Harford’s duty to defend is whether the allegations contained in Sampson’s complaint are such that a “potentiality” of coverage exists. An insurer has an obligation to defend an insured if, under the facts as alleged in the complaint, there is a potentiality that the claim could be covered by the policy.”
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.