Pendleton v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2017
8 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 483 So. 2d 602 - Francois v. Ybarzabal · 664 So. 2d 398 - Manzella v. Doe · State v. Walker · Nippert v. Baton Rouge Railcar Services, Inc. · 265 So. 2d 307 - Tudury v. Cooperative Cab 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Reliance upon an exclusion in an insurance contract is considered to be an affirmative defense, which must be specially pleaded in defendant's answer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“where the pleadings fail to include this defense, defendant is precluded from offering proof in connection with this exclusion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In the absence of such a pleading, no proof can be offered in connection with the exclusion.”
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.