Birmingham Fire Insurance v. American National Fire Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2016
5 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 National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh v. CBI Industries, Inc. · Cavnar v. Quality Control Parking, Inc. · Stewart Title Guaranty Co. v. Sterling · G. A. Stowers Furniture Co. v. American Indemnity Co. · La Sara Grain Co. v. First National Bank of Mercedes
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the determination of whether a contract is ambiguous should be limited to an examination of the language of the agreement, appellate courts may examine extrinsic evidence of 'surrounding circumstances' or 'the subject matter of the contract' to determine if a latent ambiguity exists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“When no specified rate of interest is agreed on by the parties, interest at the rate of six percent per year is allowed on all accounts and contracts ascertaining the amount payable, beginning on the 30th day after the date on which the amount is due and payable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.