State Court of Appeals / Mich. Ct. App.

Shanafelt v. Allstate Insurance

Decided September 13, 1996. David Sawyer wrote the opinion for the court.

552 N.W.2d 671 · Cited 50 times

Official text

We don’t host opinion text or publish a summary of this ruling — read the official public-domain text for the court’s holding and reasoning, and verify against the primary source.

Precedents cited

Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

Smith v. Physicians Health Plan, Inc · 514 N.W.2d 150
Miller v. Auto-Owners Insurance Company · 309 N.W.2d 544
Thornton v. Allstate Insurance · 391 N.W.2d 320
Popma v. Auto Club Ins. Ass'n. · 521 N.W.2d 831
Model Laundries & Dry Cleaners v. Amoco Corp. · 548 N.W.2d 242
Nasser v. Auto Club Ins. Ass'n · 457 N.W.2d 637
Liddell v. Detroit Automobile Inter-Insurance Exchange · 302 N.W.2d 260
Gooden v. Transamerica Insurance Corp. of America · 420 N.W.2d 877
Wojas v. Rosati · 452 N.W.2d 864
Mitcham v. City of Detroit · 94 N.W.2d 388
Wood v. Detroit Automobile Inter-Insurance Exchange · 321 N.W.2d 653
Old Orchard by the Bay Associates v. Hamilton Mutual Insurance · 454 N.W.2d 73
McCarty v. Auto Club Insurance · 527 N.W.2d 524
Johnston v. Detroit Automobile Inter-Insurance Exchange · 333 N.W.2d 517
Ansara v. State Farm Insurance · 207 Mich. App. 320

Cited by

Later opinions in our collection that cite this decision.

Bombalski v. Auto Club Insurance · 637 N.W.2d 251
Worsham v. Greenfield · 435 Md. 349
Williams v. AAA MICHIGAN · 646 N.W.2d 476
Duckworth v. Continental National Indemnity Co. · 706 N.W.2d 215
Allstate Ins. Co. v. Kaklamanos · 843 So. 2d 885
Putkamer v. Transamerica Insurance Corp. of America · 563 N.W.2d 683
Dutta v. State Farm Insurance · 769 A.2d 948
Clark v Al-Amin · 309 Mich. App. 387
People v. Hill · 561 N.W.2d 862
Messenger v. Ingham County Prosecutor · 591 N.W.2d 393
Winter v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · 2014 MT 168
SPECT Imaging, Inc. v. Allstate Insurance · 633 N.W.2d 461
In Re Huisman · 584 N.W.2d 349
Community Resource Consultants, Inc. v. Progressive Michigan Ins. Co. · 745 N.W.2d 123
Detroit Edison Co. v. Spartan Express, Inc. · 572 N.W.2d 39
Ross v. Auto Club Group · 711 N.W.2d 787
Ross v. Auto Club Group · 732 N.W.2d 529
Fields v. BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc. · 91 S.W.3d 571

Explore from here

David Sawyer’s Judicial Record · Mich. Ct. App. · How we source opinions

Source: opinion metadata, authorship, and citation counts from the Free Law Project’s CourtListener bulk data (public domain). Data last verified 2026-07-09. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).