Lester v. Sparks’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2008
6 federal appellate · 6 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 Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance v. Kearney · 210 Pa. Super. 322 - Wasilko v. Home Mutual Casualty Co. · State Ex Rel. Derryberry v. Kerr-McGee Corporation · Steiger v. Commerce Acceptance of Oklahoma City, Inc. · Johnson v. McDonald
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"As we analyze this policy and similar standardized policies, we find it contains six or more conditions, coverages or contracts interwoven and dealt with. Our statutes contemplate that certain coverages are not only overlapping but are included in an automobile policy; see 36 O.S.1971 §§ 701. It is not bold to say that a modern automobile insurance policy encompasses accident, property, vehicle and casualty coverages."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The doctrine of implied waiver or estoppel is not available to bring within the coverage of an insurance policy risks that are not covered by its terms or that are expressly excluded therefrom.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the question become[ ] one for the trier of facts, if there is conflicting evidence.”
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.