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accidental means

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 291 U.S. 491 - Landress v. Phoenix Mut Life Ins Co · 1934Most cited · 537 citing opinions

the carefully chosen words defining liability distinguish between the result and the external means which produces it. The insurance is not against an accidental result. The stipulated payments are to be made only if the bodily injury, though unforeseen, is effected by means which are external and accidental

How often courts cite the case defining “accidental means”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “accidental means” — 537 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.