Farm & City Insurance Co. v. Potter’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2016
9 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 VAPPI & CO. INC. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · Central Bearings Co. v. Wolverine Insurance Company · 61 Ill. App. 2d 157 - Smith v. Moran · 137 N.J. Super. 365 - Oakes v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. · Terito v. McAndrew
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At the outset we should note that this insurance contract is a liability policy which insures the tort feasor, not the victim. Thus, whatever constituted an accident — absent policy language to the contrary — should be decided from the viewpoint of the tort feasor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]n ‘accident’ is an event which, under the circumstances, is unusual and unexpected by a person to whom it happens; the happening of an event without the concurrence of the will of the person by whose agency it is caused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[W]e give these words their ordinary rather than a technical meaning.”
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.