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157 Misc. 2d 618 - Oates v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1993

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
6
states following
June 2003
most recently cited

1 district · 6 state decisions

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “is just what it purports to be—absolute....”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[U]ninsured polluters went bankrupt or disappeared leaving no one to answer financially for the cleanup. Therefore in 1982, the insurance law was again amended, this time to remove the prohibition to coverage that the prior amendment had inserted.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “it excludes any and all personal injuries resulting from pollutants released at or from the insured's premises whether intentional or not.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.