Lujan v. Gonzales’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 15 district · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Fortier v. Dona Anna Plaza Partners (1984), Rummel v. Lexington Insurance (1997)
19 federal appellate · 15 district · 71 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 Crisci v. Security Insurance · Comunale v. Traders & General Insurance · Gedeon v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · 258 Cal. App. 2d 136 - Lysick v. Walcom · American Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. Pennsylvania Threshermen & Farmers' Mutual Casualty Insurance
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“means an insurer cannot be partial to its own interest, but must give its interests and the interests of the insured equal consideration.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“... It is a pecuniary value, pecuniary damage, to the estate and the wife and children being the distributees have nothing to do with the question of damages ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(i)t's the pecuniary benefit to the estate and not to any individuals ....”
2 later decisions 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.