St Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company v. Warwick Dyeing Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
26 F.3d 1195 · 1994
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 16 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Highlands Insurance v. Aerovox Inc. (1997), 18 Cal. 4th 1183 - Aydin Corp. v. First State Insurance (1998)
15 federal appellate · 16 district · 16 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 9601 (§ 101 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980) · 42 U.S.C. § 9604 (§ 104 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980)
Relies on 154 Ill. 2d 90 - Outboard Marine Corp. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · Scherl v. Fisher · Idaho v. Wright · Idaho v. Wright · Tennessee v. Middlebrooks
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[tjhis exclusion does not apply if such discharge, dispersal, release or escape is sudden and accidental.” Id. 9 . As the Warwick Dyeing Court noted, id. at 1201 , even the First Circuit has split over the meaning of the term”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The plain and unambiguous language of the pollution exclusion concerns 'property damage arising out of the discharge,' not 'its discharge' or 'the insured's discharge.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“arguments not made initially to the district court cannot be raised on appeal.”
3 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.