Folkman v. Quamme’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 188 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 214 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Langridge (2004), Teschendorf v. State Farm Ins. Companies (2006)
10 federal appellate · 188 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 119 Wis. 2d 722 - Kremers-Urban Co. v. American Employers Insurance Co. · 21 Cal. 4th 1109 - Palmer v. Truck Insurance Exchange · 89 Wis. 2d 555 - Kraemer Bros. v. United States Fire Insurance · 67 Wis. 2d 130 - Garriguenc v. Love · 155 Wis. 2d 808 - Smith v. Atlantic Mutual 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 214 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if it is susceptible to more than one reasonable interpretation.”
45 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he general rule as to construction of contracts is that the meaning of particular provisions in the contract is to be ascertained with reference to the contract as a whole.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“inconsistencies in the context of a policy must be material to the issue in dispute and be of such a nature that a reasonable insured would find an alternative meaning.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.