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← 98 N.C. App. 410 - Lockwood v. Porter

98 N.C. App. 410 - Lockwood v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis

1990

Citation profile

18
cited by 18 later decisions
4
states following
January 2013
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on MacClure v. Accident & Casualty Insurance Co. · Hedgecock v. Jefferson Standard Life Insurance · 360 F. Supp. 223 - Orozco v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. · Nlrb v. Service Technology Corporation

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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “1. Cooperate with us in the investigation, settlement or defense of any claim or suit.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “because he did not want to waste his time with a doctor who was not going to do anything for him and would report to [the insurer] that nothing was wrong with him when that was not so”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “unjustified refusal to be so examined violated the cooperation clause of the policy and bar[red] his action as a matter of law.”
    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.