Society of Roman Catholic Church of Diocese of Lafayette and Lake Charles, Inc. v. Interstate Fire & Cas. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2017
7 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 Cinel v. Connick · Insurance Co. of North America v. Forty-Eight Insulations, Inc. · 605 So. 2d 1032 - Roberts v. Benoit · 599 So. 2d 1058 - Cole v. Celotex Corp. · Insurance Co. of North America v. Forty-eight Insulations, Inc.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ll such exposure to substantially the same general conditions ... shall be deemed one occurrence”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Following [the] lead [of Roger v. Dufrene, 613 So.2d 947 (La.1993) ], the issue is whether Gallagher specifically warranted the amount of the Diocese's coverage, and we conclude that it did. Indeed, we find it difficult to see how Gallagher could have been more specific. The Diocese's claim is contractual because Gallagher specifically stated that the loss fund capped the Diocese's potential yearly exposure, which it certainly did not. 32 Society I, 26 F.3d at 1367 . 33 The law of the case doctrine was developed to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“When a priest molested a child during a policy year, there was both bodily injury and an occurrence, triggering policy coverage. All further molestations of that child during the policy period arose out of the same occurrence. When the priest molested the same child during the succeeding policy year, again there was both bodily injury and an occurrence. Thus, each child suffered an “oc currence” in each policy period in which he was molested.”
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.