Smith v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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.

1. ““The vehicle involved aptly fits the policy’s definition of an automobile. Coverage is not provided while the vehicle is being operated or used away from the insured’s premises. That such was its role when the anterior accident occurred is conceded. * * * An unambiguous policy provision confines the use of such a vehicle to the premises of the insured or ‘to the ways immediately adjoining’ if he is to have coverage for its negligent operation. Nor can we adopt the rationale urged by appellant that the vehicle was a ‘farm implement’ and thus saved from the operation of the exclusion clause of the policy.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Williams v. Cimarron Insurance Co.