Steptore v. Masco Const. Co., Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 95 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably 907 So. 2d 37 - Suire v. Lafayette City-Parish Government (2005), American International Specialty Lines Insurance v. Canal Indemnity Co. (2003)
12 federal appellate · 95 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 Kelsey-Hayes Co. v. Dunlop Co. · American Home Assurance Company v. Czarniecki · Maloney v. Oak Builders, Inc. · Hernandez v. Harson · 597 So. 2d 439 - STATE, DOTD v. Williamson
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]aiver occurs when there is an existing right, a knowledge of its existence and an actual intention to relinquish it or conduct so inconsistent with the intent to enforce the right as to induce a reasonable belief that it has been relinquished.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]n insured's duty to defend arises whenever the pleadings against the insured disclose even a possibility of liability under the policy.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“[g]enerally, if the insured hires an attorney to represent him in coverage disputes, he will have to bear those costs himself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.