Strader v. Progressive Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1708 · 18 U.S.C. § 2114
Relies on Murphy v. Carron · In re Debs · Tioga Co v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania New York L E · Rodriguez v. General Accident Insurance Co. of America · Seeck v. Geico General Insurance Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A word with more than one dictionary meaning is not necessarily ambiguous if the court concludes that, in context, only one meaning that comports with the parties' objectively reasonable expectations is applicable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A court is not permitted to create an ambiguity or distort the language of an unambiguous policy in order to enforce a particular construction that it deems more appropriate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“To ascertain the common meaning of a term, a court may look to a dictionary definition.”
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.