Bowie’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
Relationships
Relies on 65 Cal. 2d 263 - Gray v. Zurich Insurance Co. · Continental Casualty Co. v. Phoenix Construction Co. · 176 Cal. App. 3d 598 - CNA Casualty of California v. Seaboard Surety Co. · 112 Cal. App. 3d 213 - Giddings v. Industrial Indemnity Co. · 73 Cal. App. 3d 163 - Mullen v. Glens Falls 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]nder California law an insurer's duty to defend is not judged solely by the allegations of a third party complaint, but rather an insurer must defend any suit in which the claim alleged is potentially within the coverage of the policy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“once an insured is sued, an insurer who learns of potential liability of its insured is obligated to defend even claims not covered by the policy so long as conduct, the nature and kind of which ordinarily would be covered, has occurred”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The phrase 'duty to defend' presupposes the existence of a lawsuit ....”
1 later decision 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.