3 Ill. 2d 318 - Simmon v. Iowa Mutual Casualty Co.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 federal appellate · 74 state decisions

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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““‘Automobile insurance has taken an important position in the modem world. It is no longer a private contract merely between two parties. The greater part of litigation in our trial courts is concerned with claims arising out of property damage, personal injury or death caused by operation of motor vehicles. * * * Government and the general public have an understandable interest in the problem. Many persons injured and disabled from automobile accidents would become public charges were it not for financial assistance received from the insurance companies.’””

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 25 Wash. App. 841 - Mutual of Enumclaw Insurance v. Wiscomb · Porter v. Farmers Ins. Co. of Idaho

2. “is not a condition which will dispense with the requirement”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 222 Ill. 2d 303 - Country Mutual Ins. Co. v. Livorsi Marine · American Institute of Architects v. Interstate Fire & Casualty Co.

3. ““Conceding that the insurance company is entitled to reasonable notice to protect its interests, where such notice is given by a person other than the assured, is the company then without liability in the event the injured party is entitled to recovery? We do not feel that such a harsh result should follow, nor that it was intended by the contracting parties.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hansen v. Barmore