Hill v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

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2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A certificate of insurance is not a contract of insurance. A certificate of insurance, as [the New York financial responsibility law] clearly states, is merely evidence that a contract has been issued. At bar, Hartford never issued a contract to Johnson and Teeter [a case noting the interest in financial responsibility laws] nor any other authority cited by the appellants even suggests that Hartford is barred from showing that fact. The appellants, in effect, seek to use the certificate of insurance as a basis for independent liability. This cannot be done. The certificate is conditioned upon the issuance and existence of a policy.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tilley Ex Rel. Tilley v. Home Insurance Co.