61 Wash. 2d 685 - Thompson v. Ezzell’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably 113 Wash. 2d 869 - Boeing Co. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. (1990), 106 Wash. 2d 901 - E-Z Loader Boat Trailers, Inc. v. Travelers Indemnity Co. (1986)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 39 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 Guaranty Trust Co. v. Continental Life Insurance · Carl Ingalls, Inc. v. Hartford Fire Insurance
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if any clause is ambiguous the court must apply a construction that is most favorable to the insured, even though the insurer may have intended another meaning.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“it is clear that the parties to the contract intended that the language have a [legal or] technical meaning.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the issue only revolves about a differentiation between 'a charge' and 'share expense'”
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.