Landry v. Leonard’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions

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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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Public policy is also a consideration in reaching [our] conclusion. The general rule is that it is against public policy for insurance to indemnify an insured against his own criminal acts. People who purchase homeowners' policies do not intend that victims' injuries caused by convicted robbers during an armed robbery be covered by the robber's insurance nor do they expect to pay premiums to share in the coverage of such risks. Our holding today is consistent with public policy.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mendoza v. Rivera-Chavez · Vt. Mut. Ins. Co. v. Ben-Ami

2. “it is so highly likely that bodily injury [would] result that we will deem willing participation ... to be the intent or expectation to cause the bodily injury.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Vt. Mut. Ins. Co. v. Ben-Ami · State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Montagna

3. “In negligence, the actor does not desire to bring about the consequences which follow, nor does he know that they are substantially certain to occur, or believe that they will.... As the probability of injury to another, apparent from the facts within the acting party’s knowledge, becomes greater, his conduct takes on more of the attributes of intent, until it approaches and finally becomes indistinguishable from that substantial certainty of harm that underlies intent.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Liu v. Striuli