Burt Rigid Box, Inc. v. Travelers Property Casualty Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
302 F.3d 83 · 2002
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 40 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Hammersmith v. TIG Insurance (2007), Fashion Boutique of Short Hills, Inc. v. Fendi USA, Inc. (2002)
12 federal appellate · 40 district · 4 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Goenaga v. March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation · Raskin v. Wyatt Co.
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“act inconsistent with a lack of coverage.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no possible factual or legal basis on which [they] might eventually be obligated to indemnify [Plaintiff]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Waiver and estoppel are distinct in New York insurance law.”
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.