Stanley v. American Fire & Cas. Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• rejecting Tilley analysis that focused on brewing coffee as the activity in question
• “supervising children on a regular basis for compensation is ordinarily a business pursuit”
• “The provision does not lend itself to clarity, resulting in a split of opinion over whether it is ambiguous with the consensus that it is poorly worded.”
• $3.00 per day held to be sufficient compensation for \business pursuits\ exclusion to apply
• \We are in accord with the several authorities that the exclusionary provision [virtually identical to the one here] is poorly worded and could have been written with more specificity. Yet when applied to these facts we do not find it ambiguous.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

39 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Prudential Property & Casualty Insurance v. Boylan
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1998-01-22· cited 256×
• State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Moore
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1981-12-28· cited 89×
• State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Reed
  Texas Supreme Court· 1994-05-11· cited 71×
• Northern Security Insurance v. Perron
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2001-05-04· cited 55×
• Haley v. Allstate Insurance
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1987-07-22· cited 34×
• Travelers Indemnity Co. v. Fantozzi Ex Rel. Fantozzi
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1993-03-19· cited 33×
• Camden Fire Ins. Ass'n v. Johnson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1982-07-01· cited 31×
• Amco Insurance v. Beck
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1996-12-20· cited 29×
• Moncivais v. Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1988-10-19· cited 29×
• Myrtil v. Hartford Fire Insurance
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1981-04-15· cited 28×
• Landis v. Allstate Ins. Co.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-12-01· cited 20×
• Foster v. Allstate Insurance Co.
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1982-08-31· cited 19×
• Rocky Mountain Casualty Co. v. Martin
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1990-12-26· cited 18×
• Wickner v. American Reliance Insurance
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1995-07-31· cited 18×
• Luneau v. Peerless Insurance
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2000-03-24· cited 17×
• McCloskey v. Republic Insurance
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1989-06-29· cited 16×
• Republic Insurance v. Piper
  D. Colorado· 1981-07-01· cited 16×
• Robinson v. Utica Mutual Insurance Co.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1979-08-20· cited 16×
• Allstate Insurance Co. v. Kelsey
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1984-03-14· cited 15×
• Zulpo v. Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. of Arkansas, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2007-04-11· cited 14×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Crane v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.
  California Supreme Court· 1971-06-17· cited 188×
• Gulf Insurance Company v. Tilley
  N.D. Indiana· 1967-06-13· cited 69×
• Gulf Insurance Company v. Ronald Tilley, Carol Jo Tilley, Marcella Smith (A Minor), Patricia A. Smith
  Seventh Circuit· 1968-03-05· cited 58×
• Martinelli v. Security Insurance Co. of New Haven
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1972-11-21· cited 57×
• Fadden v. Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance
  New York Supreme Court· 1966-09-05· cited 50×
• Home Insurance v. Aurigemma
  New York Supreme Court· 1965-03-15· cited 41×
• Mansfield v. Hyde
  California Court of Appeal· 1952-06-30· cited 27×
• Long v. City of Anaheim
  California Court of Appeal· 1967-10-18· cited 12×
• Tropical Coach Lines, Inc. v. King
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1962-12-05· cited 6×
• McDougall v. HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1971-06-08· cited 5×