Lunsford v. Mills’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on General Accident Insurance v. Wheeler · Motorists Mutual Ins. Co. v. Tomanski · Sproles v. Greene · 171 Ill. App. 3d 600 - Mulholland v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · Proctor v. NC FARM BUREAU MUT. INS.
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a highway vehicle with respect to the ownership, maintenance, or use of which, the sum of the limits of liability under all bodily injury liability bonds and insurance policies applicable at the time of the accident is less than the applicable limits of underinsured motorist coverage for the vehicle involved in the accident and insured under the owner’s policy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lunsford v. Mills“Underinsured motorist coverage is deemed to apply when, by reason of payment of judgment or settlement, all liability bonds or insurance policies providing coverage for bodily injury caused by the ownership, maintenance, or use of the underinsured highway vehicle have been exhausted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lunsford v. Mills
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.