254 N.J. Super. 43 - Gilbert Spruance v. PA. MFRS.'INS.’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Gilbert Spruance Co. v. Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Ass'n. (1993), 258 N.J. Super. 167 - Diamond Shamrock Chemicals v. Aetna (1992)
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 24 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Path-Science Laboratories, Inc. v. Greene County Hospital · State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Estate of Simmons · 218 N.J. Super. 516 - Broadwell Realty Services, Inc. v. Fidelity & Cas. Co. of NY
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘We hold that New Jersey courts should interpret according to New Jersey [substantive] law a pollution exclusion clause contained in a comprehensive general liability insurance policy, wherever written, which was purchased to cover an operation or activity, wherever its principal location, which generates toxic wastes that predictably come to rest in New Jersey and impose legal liabilities there on the insured. In such a case, New Jersey has the dominant and significant relationship with the parties, the transaction, and the outcome of the controversy.’ ” 187 W.Va. at 746 , 421 S.E.2d at 497 . (“[Substantive” in original).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e concluded that nationwide uniformity of policy interpretation was an illusory goal, not truly achievable or necessarily preferable. If it is associated with the place of the contract, it is associated with an arbitrary and usually irrelevant choice which § 193 ... discards. Site-specific uniformity, on the other hand, is achievable, and represents a choice of the law of the jurisdiction that is most concerned with the outcome.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that operation or activity is predictably multistate, the significance of the principal location of the insured risk diminishes”
2 later decisions 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.