Wallace v. Helbig’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Nuspl v. Missouri Medical Insurance Co. · Hopmeier v. First American Title Insurance Co. of Mid-West · Chicago Title Insurance Co. v. Jackson, Brouillette, Pohl & Kirley, P.C.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“entered a declaratory judgment ... which determined that the insurance policy provided by [the insurance broker] did not provide coverage. ... In the event the court had declared there was coverage, [the insured] would not have had a cause of action against [the insurance broker] under any recognized legal theory.”
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.