Saunders v. Mortensen’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 220 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 252 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Arnott v. Arnott (2012), In re All Kelley & Ferraro Asbestos Cases (2004)
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 220 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 Kelly v. Medical Life Insurance · Aultman Hospital Ass'n v. Community Mutual Insurance · Foster Wheeler Enviresponse, Inc. v. Franklin County Convention Facilities Authority · Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance v. Guman Bros. Farm · Hamilton Insurance Services, Inc. v. Nationwide 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 252 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to ascertain and give effect to the intent of the parties.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“the intent of each part gathered from a consideration of the whole.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Limits of Liability {¶ 27} "The Uninsured Motorist Coverage — Bodily injury limit stated on the Policy Declarations is the maximum amount payable for this coverage by this policy for any one accident. This means that the insuring of more than one auto for other coverages afforded by this policy will not increase our limit of liability beyond the amount shown on the Policy Declarations. {¶ 28} "Regardless of the number of insured autos under this coverage, the specific amount shown on the Policy Declarations for: {¶ 29} "1. `each person' is the maximum that we will pay for damages arising out of bodily injury to one person in any one motor vehicle accident, including damages sustained by anyone else as a result of that bodily injury. {¶ 30} "2. `each accident' is the maximum that we will pay for damages arising out of bodily injury to two or more persons in any one motor vehicle accident. This `each accident' limit is subject to the `each person' limit.”
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.