GENERAL ACC. FIRE & LIFE, ETC. v. Appleton’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 1997
18 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 248 So. 2d 238 - National Indemnity Co. v. Corbo · 315 So. 2d 553 - Leatherby Insurance Company v. Willoughby · 303 So. 2d 342 - Valdes v. Smalley · 326 So. 2d 48 - Watson v. Watson · 341 So. 2d 975 - National Ben Franklin Ins. Co. v. Valdes
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that it is not enough that an automobile be the physical situs of an injury or that the injury occur incidentally to the use of an automobile, but that there must be a causal connection or relation between the two for liability to exist.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“does not require a showing of proximate cause between the injury and the use of the automobile, but that there must be a connection or relation between the two for liability to exist: We recognize that bodily injury resulting from a criminal assault, under the terms of an uninsured motorist policy, may be caused by accident and arise”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[Insurer is obligated] [t]o pay all sums which the insured ... shall be legally entitled to recover as damages from the owner or operator of an uninsured automobile because of bodily injury ... sustained by the insured, caused by accident and arising out of the ownership, maintenance or use of such uninsured automobile... . " (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Willard v. Kelley
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.