611 So. 2d 1377 - Smith v. Matthews’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 116 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably 634 So. 2d 1180 - Reynolds v. Select Properties, Ltd. (1994), Louisiana Ins. Guar. Ass'n v. Interstate Fire & Casualty Co. (1994)
2 federal appellate · 116 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 550 So. 2d 609 - Breland v. Schilling · 579 So. 2d 981 - Central Louisiana Elec. Co. v. Westinghouse · 572 So. 2d 39 - State Through DOTD v. Estate of Davis · Jackson v. Lajaunie · Richard v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty 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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. A lease of premises; 2. A sidetrack agreement; 3. An easement or license agreement in connection with vehicle or pedestrian private railroad crossings at grade; 4. Any other easement agreement, except in connection with construction or demolition operations on or within 50 feet of a railroad; 5. An indemnification of a municipality as required by ordinance, except in connection with work for a municipality; or 6. That part of any other contract or agreement pertaining to your business under which you assume the tort liability of another to pay damages because of "bodily injury" or "property damage" to a third person or organization, if the contract or agreement is made prior to the "bodily injury" or "property damage." Tort liability means a liability that would be imposed by law in the absence of any contract of agreement. (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an insurance contract is an agreement between the parties and should be interpreted by using ordinary policy principles.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“effectively a named insured under the policy”
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.