Vlastos v. Sumitomo Marine & Fire Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
707 F.2d 775 · 1983
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2019
6 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 Collister v. Nationwide Life Insurance · Pierce v. Georgia · 230 Pa. Super. 511 - Hionis v. Northern Mutual Insurance · Heist Caribe Corporation v. American Home Assurance Company · Burne v. Franklin Life 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] provision of an insurance policy is ambiguous if reasonably intelligent [persons] on considering it in the context of the entire policy would honestly differ as to its meaning.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In interpreting an insurance policy, which is a contract, courts are required to determine the intent of the parties as disclosed by the language of the policy. ... However, because insurance policies are frequently considered to be contracts of adhesion, any ambiguity in the policy “must be construed against the insurer, and in a manner which is favorable to coverage.” ... Nevertheless, the language of the policy may not be tortured to create ambiguities where none exist.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether alternative or more precise language, if used, would have put the matter beyond reasonable question”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.