Michigan Mutual Insurance Co. v. Combs’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2011
1 federal appellate · 11 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 Masonic Accident Insurance v. Jackson · 6 Cal. App. 3d 626 - Myers v. County of Orange · 82 Ohio App. 111 - Madden v. Farm Bureau Mutual Automobile Ins. · 2 Ill. App. 2d 124 - Wolf v. American Casualty Co. of Reading, Pennsylvania · 181 Ind. App. 618 - Huntington Mutual Insurance v. Walker
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The injured party in Pierce was the driver of the insured vehicle—he had been an “occupant” of the car and intended to drive away in it once it was freed of the snowbank. To afford coverage to the Pierce claimant was both equitable and reasonable in light of his intended “occupancy” as that word is commonly understood.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“maintained a close and substantial connection with occupancy and use of the insured vehicle.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in (,on,) [or upon or] entering [into] or alighting from.”
1 later decision 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.