French v. Hernandez’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brill v. Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America · Matits v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance · Butler v. Bonner & Barnewall, Inc. · Odolecki v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. · State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Zurich American 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]hat does not mean ... that an insurance policy can be stretched beyond all reason to fit a set of facts that fall beyond the reach of the omnibus clause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.