Rabon v. Great Southwest Fire Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
818 F.2d 306 · 1987
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2011
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 American Home Assurance Company v. Sunshine Supermarket Inc · Walker v. Pettit Construction Co. · British America Assur. Co. v. Bowen · Rutledge v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance · George H. Galbraith and Rose T. Galbraith, His Wife v. Hartford Fire Insurance 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he reasons for this rule are easy to appreciate. First, such evidence goes directly to the principal issue before the jury and is highly prejudicial. Second, a prosecutor's decision not to prosecute and a jury's decision to acquit in a criminal trial are based on different criteria than apply in a civil proceeding. In particular, a prosecutor's decision to nolle prosse may take into account many factors irrelevant in a civil suit, such as the higher standard of proof required for criminal conviction. In any event, a prosecutor's opinion whether the insured started the fire is inadmissible since based on knowledge outside his personal experience.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the trier of the fact must decide whether the burden is met in the face of the insured's denial and other possible explanations for the fire.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“They are asking you to do what they couldn't get done in criminal courts,” and”
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.