Griggs v. Bertram’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 42 district · 120 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 225 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Feldman v. Lederle Laboratories (1984), Glenn v. Fleming (1990)
24 federal appellate · 42 district · 120 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Burd v. Sussex Mutual Insurance Company · St Louis Dressed Beef Provision Company v. Maryland Casualty Company · 61 Cal. 2d 638 - Tomerlin v. Canadian Indemnity Co. · Missionaries of the Co. of Mary, Inc. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · MERCHANTS IND. CORP., OF NY v. Eggleston
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 225 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an insurer is entitled to a reasonable period of time in which to investigate whether the particular incident involves a risk covered by the terms of the policy.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] settlement may be enforced against an insurer in this situation only if it is reasonable in amount and entered into in good faith.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Where an insurer wrongfully refuses coverage and a defense to its insured, so that the insured is obliged to defend himself in an action later held to be covered by the policy, the insurer is liable for the amount of the judgment obtained against the insured or of the settlement made by him. The only qualifications to this rule are that the amount paid in settlement be reasonable and that the payment be made in good faith. " [ Griggs v. Bertram, 88 N.J. 347, 364 , 443 A. 2d 163 (1982), quoting Fireman's Fund Ins. Co. v. Sec. Ins. Co. of Hartford, 72 N.J. 63, 71 , 367 A. 2d 864 (1976), quoting New Jersey Mfrs. Indem. Ins. Co. v. United States Cas. Co., 91 N.J.Super. 404, 407-08 , 220 A. 2d 708 (App.Div.1966) (emphasis added).]”
3 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.