Aetna Casualty & Surety v. Wild’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Stewart Title Guaranty Co. v. Sterling · La Sara Grain Co. v. First National Bank of Mercedes · Travelers Indemnity Co. of Connecticut v. Mayfield · International Security Life Insurance Co. v. Finck · Hruska v. First State Bank of Deanville
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Those causes for which no recovery for attorney's fees may be had must be segregated and excluded from consideration in determining reasonable attorney's fees.”
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.