Harris v. Carolina Life Insurance Company’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably 314 So. 2d 567 - Stuyvesant Insurance Company v. Butler (1975), 632 So. 2d 1054 - Premier Ins. Co. v. Adams (1994)
23 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 Mason v. Life Casualty Ins. Co. of Tennessee · 226 So. 2d 710 - Harris v. Carolina Life 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Death ... resulting directly or indirectly, wholly or partially from any of the following causes are risks not assumed under this policy: (c) Bodily injury while under the influence of alcohol or drug....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“the insurance company has the burden to show some causal relationship between the death and the intoxication in order for the exclusionary provision to be effective.”
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.