49 Ill. App. 3d 910 - Rivota v. Kaplan’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably 154 Ill. 2d 90 - Outboard Marine Corp. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance (1992), 87 Ill. App. 3d 446 - La Rotunda v. Royal Globe Insurance Co. (1980)
65 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 10 Ill. App. 3d 115 - Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Case Foundation Co. · 62 Ill. App. 2d 164 - McFadyen v. North River Insurance · 3 Ill. 2d 318 - Simmon v. Iowa Mutual Casualty Co. · 59 Ill. 2d 165 - Weiss v. Bituminous Casualty Corp. · 17 Ill. App. 2d 44 - Allstate Insurance v. Keller
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Such language is unambiguous, and applying its ordinary meaning leads us to conclude that the exclusion endorsement was not one of the terms of the insurance policy in effect when the accident occurred. It was not written into the policy, nor was it attached as an endorsement.” ( 49 Ill. App. 3d 910, 918 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“unless provided otherwise, the terms of the original policy become part of the renewal contract of insurance.”
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.