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8 canonical passages across 7 cases, quoted by 31 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Hartford Insurance v. Halt.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hartford Insurance v. Halt Anchor | green | “unless otherwise defined by the policy, words and phrases are to be understood in their plain, ordinary, and popularly understood sense, rather than in a forced or technical sense” | 9 |
| 2 | Stainless, Inc. v. Employers Fire Insurance | green | “the meaning of the language used in the policy must be found in the common sense and common speech of the average person” | 6 |
| 3 | Burr v. Commercial Travelers Mutual Accident Ass'n of America | green | “accidental means and accidental results” | 3 |
| 4 | Fieldston Property Owners Ass'n v. Hermitage Insurance | green | “if the plain language of the policy is determinative, we cannot rewrite the agreement by disregarding that language” | 3 |
| 5 | Miller v. Continental Insurance | green | “pertain not only to an unintentional or unexpected event which, if it occurs, will foreseeably bring on injury, but may pertain equally to an intentional or expected event which unintentionally or unexpectedly has that result” | 3 |
| 6 | Arbour v. Commercial Life Insurance | green | “directly and independently of all other causes” | 3 |
| 7 | Blakesley v. State | green | “on appeal from a judgment following a bench trial, this court may independently consider the probative weight of the evidence and the inferences that may be drawn therefrom, and grant the judgment that we deem the facts warrant” | 3 |
| 8 | Fieldston Property Owners Ass'n v. Hermitage Insurance | green | “in resolving insurance disputes, we first look to the language of the applicable policies. if the plain language of the policy is determinative, we cannot rewrite the agreement by disregarding that language.” | 1 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment: for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.