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← 443 A2D 1241 - Chalou v. LaPierre

Chalou v. LaPierre’s Empirical Analysis

1982

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
November 1995
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Markham v. Allstate Insurance Company · Deignan v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.

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

  1. “the meaning so expressed will be conclusively presumed to be the one intended by the Legislature.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “free from ambiguity and expresses a plain and sensible meaning”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.