Satterwhite v. Stolz’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2003 · most notably 64 Ill. 2d 187 - Maryland Casualty Co. v. Peppers (1976), 74 Ill. 2d 132 - Thornton v. Paul (1978)
6 federal appellate · 42 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 St Louis Dressed Beef Provision Company v. Maryland Casualty Company · Heyden Newport Chemical Corp. v. Southern General Insurance Co. · Farm Bureau Mut. Automobile Ins. v. Hammer · Olguin v. Thygesen · United Services Automobile Ass'n v. Russom
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.
“A contract is made “at the time when the last act necessary for its formation is done, and at the place where the final act is done.” Merriman v. Harter, 59 N.M. 154 , 280 P.2d 1045 (1955). The place where the final act is done determines the applicable law for the interpretation of the contract. See Miller v. Mutual Benefit Health & Acc. Ass’n, 76 N.M. 455 , 415 P.2d 841 (1966); Merriman v. Harter, supra; Spiess v. United Services Life Ins. Co., 348 F.2d 275 (10th Cir. 1965).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““To pay on behalf of the insured all sums which the insured shall become legally obligated to pay as damages because of bodily injury as defined herein (bodily injury is defined in the policy as including death) sustained by any person.””
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.