Miles v. Royal Indemnity Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2006 · most notably Cavnar v. Quality Control Parking, Inc. (1985), Commonwealth Lloyd's Insurance Co. v. Thomas (1984)
20 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 Burt v. Lochausen · Leyva v. Pacheco · Republic National Bank of Dallas v. Northwest National Bank of Fort Worth · Pasadena State Bank v. Isaac · Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Stahl Petroleum Co.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A policy of insurance insuring against ‘all risks’ creates a special type of coverage that extends to risks not usually covered under other insurance; recovéry under an all-risk policy will be allowed for all fortuitous losses not resulting from misconduct or fraud, unless the policy contains a specific provision expressly excluding the loss from coverage____Texas jurisprudence is to similar effect: ‘As a general rule, an “all risk” policy creates a special type of coverage. Recovery under such a policy is generally allowed for all losses of a fortuitous nature in the absence of fraud or other intentional misconduct of the insured, unless, of course, a policy contains a provision excluding the specific loss from coverage.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t is not necessary ... that the contract shall itself establish a fixed liability in a definite amount as of a date certain. It is sufficient ... if the contract provides the conditions upon which liability depends and fixes a measure by which the sum payable can be ascertained with reasonable certainty, in light of the attending circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Texas courts have followed the general rule that where it appears a witness’ testimony is predicated both upon personal knowledge and upon hearsay, his testimony is admissible.””
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.