722 So. 2d 86 - Rambo v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2011
12 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 591 So. 2d 342 - Schroeder v. Board of Sup'rs · Louisiana Ins. Guar. Ass'n v. Interstate Fire & Casualty Co. · 550 So. 2d 577 - Penalber v. Blount · Sanders v. Ashland Oil, Inc. · Potter v. FIRST FEDERAL S & L ASS'N OF SCOTLANDVILLE
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The parties' intent, as reflected by the words of the policy, determines the extent of coverage. Such intent is to be determined in accordance with the plain, ordinary, and popular sense of the language used in the policy, unless the words have acquired a technical meaning. Each provision in a contract must be interpreted in light of the other provisions so that each is given the meaning suggested by the contract as a whole. An insurance contract should not be given an interpretation which would enlarge or restrict its provisions beyond what is reasonably contemplated by its terms or which would lead to an absurd conclusion. If the language in an insurance contract is clear and unambiguous, the agreement must be enforced as written. The court should not strain to find ambiguity where none exists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sanchez v. Callegan
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.