Chavez v. Chenoweth’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 101 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Christian v. American Home Assurance Co. (1978), Erie Insurance v. Hickman Ex Rel. Smith (1993)
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 101 state decisions — followed in 12 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 State Farm General Insurance Company v. Clifton · State v. Torres · Novak v. Dow · Griego v. Conwell · American Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. All American Bus Lines, Inc.
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a frivolous or unfounded refusal to pay.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The `bad faith dealing' rule applies between an insurer and insured. Plaintiff's dealings with State Farm in connection with damages based on [tortfeasor]'s alleged fault were not dealings between insurer and insured, but arm's length dealings on the basis of plaintiff's claim against State Farm as the insurer of [tortfeasor].”
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.