Lindstrom v. Hanover Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Vanessa Abraham v. Kimber, Wendell v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance (1999)
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 62 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 Gemsco, Inc. v. Walling · Guiseppi v. Walling · SL Industries, Inc. v. American Motorists Insurance · Schierstead v. City of Brigantine · Sheeran v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, Inc.
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he assailant would not likely have committed such an act of apparently random violence without the use of a car.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“neither... applies to injuries caused by an act that is an accident from the victim's perspective but that is intended by the actor.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he inquiry should be whether the negligent act which caused the injury, although not foreseen or expected, was in the contemplation of the parties to the insurance contract a natural and reasonable incident or consequence of the use of the automobile, and thus a risk against which they might reason-ably expect those insured under the policy would be protected.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.