68 Wash. 2d 713 - Ames v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably 106 Wash. 2d 901 - E-Z Loader Boat Trailers, Inc. v. Travelers Indemnity Co. (1986), 86 Wash. 2d 432 - Morgan v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America (1976)
2 district · 26 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 61 Wash. 2d 685 - Thompson v. Ezzell · 6 Wash. 2d 379 - Zinn v. Equitable Life Insurance · 49 Wash. 2d 347 - Selective Logging Co. v. General Casualty Co. of America · 39 Wash. 2d 481 - Davis v. Gibbs
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Insurance contracts must be interpreted according to the evident intent of the parties. . . . The policy cannot be read in a vacuum. It must be construed with an eye to the background facts existing between the insured and the insurer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“but one of a series of interpretative guides”
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.