Liberty Mutual Insurance Company v. Connecticut Indemnity Company, Larry Weicht, Elizabeth Grant, and Cynthia Jessup’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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

1. “had [the driver] driven his semi-tractor to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway or to the Kentucky Derby that weekend, for example, [he] would have exceeded his authority under the lease and would not have been acting in the business of [the trucking company]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gulf Insurance v. E Kingman · Gulf Ins. v. Kingman

2. “[W]hat matters is that, when the accident occurred he was in the middle of carrying out his dispatch orders, the company to whom he leased his services had the right to control his actions and he was responsible for the [load].”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gulf Insurance v. E Kingman · Gulf Ins. v. Kingman

3. “have the freedom to drive his semi-tractor hither and yon in search of other fulfillment”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Casey v. Smith · Empire Fire and Marine Insurance Company v. Brantley Trucking Inc et al.