Lewis v. Bradley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 1 district · 30 state decisions

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

1. ““One of the basic elements of a ‘substitution’ provision is that the automobile claimed to be covered be actually used as a ‘substitute’ for the described automobile. “Thus, for example, it must be shown that, absent one of the specified circumstances, the described vehicle would have been used for the trip on which the accident occurred.””

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 17 Ariz. App. 490 - Fulton v. Woodford · Nelson v. St. Paul Mercury Insurance Company

2. ““A substitute automobile within the meaning of the policy is one actually but only temporarily used in place of the specified automobile, i.e., for the same use the insured car would have been used except for its withdrawal from all normal use and while such withdrawal is because of its breakdown, repair, servicing, loss, or destruction.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 81 Wis. 2d 183 - Lecus v. American Mutual Insurance Co. of Boston · 46 Wis. 2d 123 - Strozewski v. American Family Mutual Insurance

3. “[t]he temporary-substitute-automobile coverage is expressly limited to exclude only an automobile owned by the name insured.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 218 Wis. 2d 38 - Binon v. Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance · Bartlett v. Amica Mutual Insurance