Willis v. Denson’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2017
10 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 Grytbak v. Grytbak · Life Cas. Ins. Co. of Tenn. v. Barefield · Southern National Insurance v. Pillow · Greenlee v. Rowland · Brunson v. Reinberger
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e are committed to the rule that, when proof is made of loss or damage apparently within a policy of insurance, the burden is on the insurer to show that the loss or injury was from an excepted risk or cause. Life & Casualty Ins. Co. of Tennessee v. Barefield, 187 Ark. 676 , 61 S.W.2d 698 [ (1933) ]; So. Nat’l Ins. Co. v. Pillow, 206 Ark. 769 , 177 S.W.2d 763 [ (1944) ]. This is the rule ordinarily applied where the insurer claims vacancy or nonoccupancy and the burden is clearly upon it to prove such affirmative defense.”
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.