American Justice Insurance Reciprocal v. Hutchison’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brakeman v. Potomac Insurance Co. · Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Murphy · Great American Insurance v. C. G. Tate Construction Co. · Johnson Controls, Inc. v. Bowes · Miller v. Dilts
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“construe insurance contracts in the same manner as any other contract.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Insurance contracts ... should be construed so as to give effect to the intention and express language of the parties. Words in an insurance policy are given their common and ordinary meaning. Where language in an insurance policy is susceptible of more than one reasonable interpretation, however, it is ambiguous. Where the ambiguous language limits the coverage of an insurance policy, that language must be construed against the insurance company and in favor of the insured.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The language of the policy must be taken and understood in its plain, ordinary and popular sense.”
2 later decisions 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.