Sumrall v. Bickham’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
September 2004
most recently cited
1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“opinion solely on the issue of whether a plaintiff's settlement with an insured eliminates an insurer's obligation to pay the plaintiff according to the terms that the policy would otherwise require.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sumrall v. Bickham
How this case has been treated — in progress
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