56 Ohio App. 3d 147 - Sutton v. Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on King v. Nationwide Insurance · Olmstead v. Lumbermens Mutual Ins. · Hedrick v. Motorists Mutual Insurance · Dairyland Insurance v. Finch · Motorists Mutual Ins. v. Lumbermens Mutual 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Servicing' is commonly defined as `performing] services for * * * as * * * to repair or provide maintenance for * * *.' Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1986) 2075. `Maintenance' is commonly defined as `the labor of keeping something * * * in a state of repair or efficiency: care, upkeep * * *.' Id. at 1362. In this geographical area where salt is the predominant method of snow removal, washing a vehicle is certainly necessary to maintain the vehicle. Providing upkeep of the exterior of a vehicle by washing constitutes servicing the vehicle.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The terms `servicing' vehicles or vehicles being `serviced' are not ambiguous and clearly include the exterior maintenance of the automobile as well as maintenance of the internal operations. When a vehicle is being cleaned it is being serviced, just as if it were *Page 5 being rustproofed, oiled or painted. It would indeed be unreasonable to interpret the word "servicing”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]t would be unduly burdensome to require insurance companies to explain in detail every word, phrase or sentence of an insurance policy as a prerequisite to their efficacy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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