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Williams v. Allstate Ins. Co.’s Empirical Analysis

1991

Citation profile

cited by 24 later decisions

states following

August 2013

most recently cited

24 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 547 So. 2d 870 - West v. Founders Life Assur. Co. of Florida · National Sav. Life Ins. Co. v. Dutton · 497 So. 2d 471 - Jawad v. Granade · 539 So. 2d 160 - Alpine Bay Resorts, Inc. v. Wyatt · 456 So. 2d 771 - Deaton, Inc. v. Burroughs

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

“[S]ubstantial evidence is evidence of such weight and quality that fair-minded persons in the exercise of impartial judgment can reasonably infer the existence of the fact sought to be proved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. St. Clair Federal Sav. Bank v. Rozelle
“[A] refusal to give a requested written instruction can be error only if the same principles are not substantially covered in the court's oral charge to the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Hunt v. State
“West v. Founders Life Assurance Co. of Florida, 547 So.2d 870 (Ala.1989).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 685 So. 2d 742 - Sam v. Beaird

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.