Surdyka v. DeWitt’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
3 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Hoang v. Assurance Co. of America (2007), Pham v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (2003)
3 district · 22 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 Palmer v. AH Robins Co., Inc. · Farmers Group, Inc. v. Trimble · Martinez Ex Rel. Sprague v. Hawkeye-Security Insurance · Coxen v. WESTERN EMPIRE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY · Sun Insurance v. Hamanne
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““bodily injury and property damage arising out of operations ... but only if the [injury or damage] occurs after such operations have been completed.... ‘Operations’ include materials, parts or equipment furnished in connection therewith. Operations shall be deemed completed at the earliest of the following times: [[Image here]] “(3) when the portion of the work out of which the injury or damage arises has been put to its intended use by any person....””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'would a reasonable insurer under the cireumstances have denied or delayed payment of the claim under the facts and circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[The standard of conduct of [an insurer] in relation to the insured must be measured by general principles of negligence.”
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.