Seals v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis

1982

Citation profile

cited by 18 later decisions

states following

February 2012

most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 15 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2012

1 federal appellate · 15 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 Sinitiere v. Lavergne · 371 So. 2d 1120 - Folse v. Fakouri · Perniciaro v. Brinch · 410 So. 2d 715 - Seals v. Morris · 368 So. 2d 1030 - Credeur v. Luke

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

“[a] policy can not in one instance declare there is express coverage and in a second provision declare effectually there is not coverage.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Domingue v. Rodrigue · 656 So. 2d 717 - McCarthy v. Berman
“(Emphasis omitted.) The effect of the quoted exclusion would have been to exclude coverage under the policy in every instance in which the tortfeasor was driving his own truck. This circuit, in Seals , affirmed the trial court, which had interpreted the owner exclusion to apply only when a hired automobile was hired without its owner. The Seals court stated,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Domingue v. Rodrigue
“[N]either the owner nor the lessee (of whom the named insured is a sub-lessee) of a hired automobile, nor any agent or employee of any such owner or lessee, is an insured.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Domingue v. Rodrigue

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.