Okada v. MGIC Indemnity Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
823 F.2d 276 · 1986
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 9 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably 5 Cal. 4th 854 - Bay Cities Paving & Grading, Inc. v. Lawyers' Mutual Insurance (1993), Stonewall Insurance Company v. Asbestos Claims Management Corporation Fm Asbestos Claims Management Corporation (1995)
16 federal appellate · 9 district · 8 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 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · First Ins. Co. of Hawaii v. State · Sturla, Inc. v. Fireman's Fund Insurance · Inc v. Aetna Casualty and Surety Company Inc · Hanagami v. China Airlines, Ltd.
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`In a liability contract, the insurer agrees to cover liability for damages. If the insured is liable, the insurance company must pay the damages. In an indemnity contract, by contrast, the insurer agrees to reimburse expenses to the insured that the insure[d] is liable to pay and has paid.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“legally obligated " to pay. (Emphasis added). Loss is defined to include "damages, judgments, settlement and costs, cost of investigation ... and defense of legal actions, claims or proceedings and appeals therefrom....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If an action against the directors incorporates both covered and uncovered claims, the parties must apportion the costs so that MGIC need only pay for amounts generated in defense of covered claims.”
2 later decisions 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.