Mid-South Insurance v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1981
6 federal appellate · 3 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 Muse v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. · West v. Monroe Bakery, Inc. · Phillips v. New Amsterdam Casualty Co. · 123 F. Supp. 642 - New Zealand Insurance Company v. Holloway · Kennedy v. Audubon Insurance Company
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . that the public policy as expressed in the Louisiana Direct Action Statute, LSA-R.S. 22:655 (1950) is that a liability insurance policy is issued primarily for the protection of the public rather than for the protection of the insured, (cases cited)”
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.