97 Ohio App. 3d 160 - Watkins v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. St. Elizabeth Medical Center (1998), Coregis Insurance v. American Health Foundation, Inc. (2001)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 31 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 King v. Nationwide Insurance · Gomolka v. State Automobile Mutual Insurance · Woods v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance · Thomas J. Lipton, Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · American Financial Corp. v. Fireman's Fund Ins.
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here policy language is ambiguous, that language is to be construed in the way that is most favorable to the insured. This general principle applies with even greater force to language that purports to limit or to qualify coverage.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Contract terms are to be given their natural and usual meaning if they are not defined in the policy . . . . [I]f an exclusionary clause has only one reasonable interpretation, a court is bound to enforce the provision accordingly.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[c]courts are required to interpret the contract in such a way as to give effect to the intention of the parties at the time the agreement was entered into, as evidenced by the provisions of the contract....When a contract term is defined in the policy, that definition controls what the term means.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.