Willis v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2004
1 federal appellate · 10 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 Tripoli v. Gurry · Brown v. Continental Casualty Co. · Konrad v. Union Casualty & Surety Co. · 269 So. 2d 590 - Brasseaux v. Girouard · Cutitto v. Metropolitan Life Ins. 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.
“* * * If it be manifest that death was neither occasioned by natural causes nor by the deceased himself, it at once becomes evident that the ‘violent and accidental’ must be considered as cause. * * * It may be logically inferred— indeed, it must be inferred, as it was not a natural death or a suicide—that the death was caused by external, violent and accidental means.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a preponderance of the evidence that such insurer is nevertheless not liable by reason of a special defense or an exclusionary clause of the policy in question.”
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.