Bennett v. Hedglin’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2022
11 state decisions
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 Craddock v. Circuit Court of Virginia · Munroe v. Great American Insurance · 234 Ill. App. 3d 792 - Northern Life Insurance v. Ippolito Real Estate Partnership · Hanover Insurance v. Leeds · Prudential v. Estate of Rojo-Pacheco
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Notice-of-cancellation provisions are designed to protect the insured by providing time to obtain insurance elsewhere before the cancellation becomes effective and the insured is exposed to risk without protection. If the insured procured the policy by fraud or material misrepresentation, he should not benefit from this protection by recovering on personal claims. Thus, we hold that the insurer may rescind the binder or policyrendering the contract void ab initio when the applicant makes a misrepresentation material to the risk.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“this error is harmless because [appellant] has failed to demonstrate that the [court's action] caused him prejudice”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“when 'the evidence is such that there can be no reasonable difference of opinion.'”
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.