Tomlinson v. Skolnik’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 148 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Hybud Equipment Corp. v. Sphere Drake Insurance (1992), Gearing v. Nationwide Insurance (1996)
14 federal appellate · 114 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 King v. Nationwide Insurance · Gomolka v. State Automobile Mutual Insurance · Karabin v. State Automobile Mutual Insurance · Hershberger v. Akron City Hospital · Faruque v. Provident Life & Accident Insurance
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 148 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be given their natural and commonly accepted meaning, where they in fact possess such meaning, to the end that a reasonable interpretation of the insurance contract consistent with the apparent object and plain intent of the parties may be determined.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“[ajbsent a definitional provision in the insurance policy to the contrary, a claim for loss of consortium deriving from bodily injury sustained by a spouse, is not a separate bodily injury for purposes of the single person limit of liability of an automobile liability insurance policy.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“"LIABILITY COVERAGE We will pay damages for bodily injury or property damage for which any covered person becomes legally responsible because of an auto accident We will settle or defend as we consider appropriate, any claim or suit asking for these damages. Our duty to settle or defend ends when our limit of liability for this coverage has been exhausted." "Covered person" as used in this Part means: "1. You or any family member for the ownership, maintenance or use of any auto or trailer. "LIMIT OF LIABILITY The limit of liability shown in the Declarations for 'each person' for Bodily Liability is our maximum limit of liability for all damages for bodily injury sustained by any one person in any one auto accident. Subject to this limit for 'each person', the limit of liability shown in the Declarations or in this endorsement for 'each accident' for Bodily Injury Liability is our maximum limit of liability for all damages for bodily injury resulting from any one auto accident." (Emphasis in original).”
3 later decisions 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.