Novak v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2023
4 federal appellate · 5 district · 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 Mazzilli v. Acc. & Cas. Ins. Co. of Winterthur · 55 Wis. 2d 27 - Pamperin v. Milwaukee Mutual Insurance · National Farmers Union Property & Casualty Co. v. Maca · Giokaris v. Kincaid · Hughes v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose behind this law is to protect against financially irresponsible persons from using our highways.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]here the policy provision under examination relates to the inclusion of persons other than the named insured within the protection afforded, a broad and liberal view is taken of the coverage extended.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We are dealing here with a term of exclusion, and thus we apply a strict construction to the term.”
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.