Williams v. Herrera’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 1998 · most notably Wiley v. Travelers Insurance Company (1974), F & T CO. v. Woods (1979)
30 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 5 Cal. 3d 112 - Crane v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. · Marx v. Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company · 87 Ill. App. 2d 15 - State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. MacDonald · 45 Misc. 2d 875 - Home Insurance v. Aurigemma · Ivy Nelson Grain Co. v. Commercial U. Ins. Co. of NY
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) Before the accident occurred, Herrera was building his own home. Whether this should be considered a ‘business pursuit,’ it is difficult to say. We believe it is ambiguous terminology because the average layman could disagree that in its ordinary meaning, building a home is a business pursuit. We resolve the ambiguity against the insurer and hold it was not a business pursuit.””
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.