American States Ins. Co. v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2019
1 federal appellate · 10 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 US Fidelity & Guar. Co. v. Armstrong · Ladner Co., Inc. v. Southern Guaranty Ins.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' [O]ccurrence ' means an accident, including continuous or repeated exposure to conditions, which results in bodily injury or property damage neither expected nor intended from the standpoint of the insured. . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Coverage B. property damage to which this insurance applies, caused by an occurrence , and the company shall have the right and duty to defend any suit against the insured seeking damages on account of such bodily injury or property damage. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An insurance company's duty to defend its insured is determined by the language of the insurance policy and by the allegations in the complaint about the facts which gave rise to the cause of action against the insured.”
2 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.