Smith v. Allstate Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 2011
4 federal appellate · 8 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 St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance v. S. L. Nusbaum & Co. · Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Wenger · American Reliance Insurance v. Mitchell · Scottsdale Insurance v. Glick
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not incumbent upon us to resolve the parties’ dispute as to the effect of [the exclusion]. As we said, in [Nusbaum ], ‘[i]t was incumbent upon the insurer to employ exclusionary language clear enough to avoid any such ambiguity, if it wished to exclude coverage.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[e]xclusionary language in an insurance policy will be construed most strongly against the insurer and the burden is upon the insurer to prove that an exclusion applies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“may be understood in more than one way or when it refers to two or more things at the same time.”
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.