24 Ill. App. 2d 316 - Lundquist v. Illinois Life & Accident Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 1986
14 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 10 Ill. App. 2d 1 - Maryland Casualty Co. v. Holmsgaard · 16 Ill. App. 2d 159 - Thompson v. Fidelity & Casualty Co. · 228 Mo. App. 198 - Kingsland v. Missouri State Life Insurance · 16 Ill. App. 2d 344 - Craig v. Central National Life Insurance · Steffan v. Bankers Life 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The usual rule of liberal construction of ambiguous provisions of insurance policies in favor of the insured must yield to rules of reasonable construction, and such does not permit the straining of plain, unambiguous language to create a supposed ambiguity where none in fact exists; where the provisions are plain and certain there is no room for construction, and the language should be taken in its plain, ordinary, popular sense: 22 Ill. Law and Pract. [Insurance], pp. 199-200; Thompson v. Fidelity & Casualty Co. of New York (1958), 16 Ill. App. 2d 159 ; Craig v. Central Nat. Life Ins. Co. (1958), 16 Ill. App. 2d 344 ; Maryland Casualty Co. v. Holmsgaard, et al. (1956), 10 Ill. App. 2d 1 ; Steffan v. Bankers Life Co. of Iowa (1932), 267 Ill. App. 248 .” Lundquist v. Illinois Life & Accident Insurance Co. (1960), 24 Ill. App. 2d 316, 323 , 164 N.E.2d 293, 297 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The claim for indemnity here, * *, originates, so far as material, only if the mother `give birth to a child or children', at a time while this policy is in force, * * * and it is only for the expense actually incurred in connection with that birth * * * that this policy insures against."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"When the Insured, if a married woman, or the wife of the Insured, if a dependent, shall, while this policy is in force and after 10 months from the effective date hereof, give birth to a child or children, the Company will pay the expense actually incurred in connection therewith * * *"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.