188 So. 2d 178 - MacAluso v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 1990 · most notably Campbell v. American Home Assurance Company (1972), 21 Wash. App. 601 - Finney v. FARMERS INSURANCE (1978)
26 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 31 Ill. App. 2d 157 - Levy v. American Automobile Insurance · 232 Cal. App. 2d 127 - Jordan v. Pacific Automobile Insurance · Hill v. Seaboard Fire & Marine Insurance Company · McCarthy v. Motor Vehicle Accident Indemnification Corp. · 123 So. 2d 835 - Boyd v. White
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * To pay all sums which the insured or his legal representative shall be legally entitled to recover as damages from the owner or operator of an uninsured automobile because of bodily injury, sickness or disease, including death resulting therefrom, hereinafter called `bodily injury,' sustained by the insured, caused by accident and arising out of the ownership, maintenance or use of such uninsured automobile; * * *."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““These cases are consistent with the only Louisiana jurisprudence which is to the effect that, in accordance with the general rules relating to the burden of proof in civil actions, the burden in an action on an insurance contract is on the plaintiff to establish every fact in issue which is essential to his cause of action, and that his claim is within the policy coverage. See Boyd v. White, La.App., 123 So.2d 835 (writ refused)””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"However, the pivotal and important question is whether the insurer or the insured has the burden of proving, under the `uninsured motorist' clause of an automobile policy, that the other motorist in the accident was uninsured. Other jurisdictions hold that the insured, seeking to recover under the uninsured motorist clause of his liability policy, has the burden of proving the offending motorist was uninsured. * * *"”
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.