Insurance Co. of North America v. Forty-Eight Insulations, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
657 F.2d 814 · 1981
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 14 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 153 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably 16 Cal. 4th 35 - Buss v. Superior Court (1997), 10 Cal. 4th 645 - Montrose Chemical Corp. v. Admiral Insurance (1995)
28 federal appellate · 14 district · 52 state decisions — followed in 18 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
Relies on Insurance Co. of North America v. Forty-Eight Insulations, Inc.
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 153 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here costs can be readily apportioned, as here, it is reasonable to have [the insured] pay its fair share of defense costs as well as indemnification costs.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[M]any of the underlying plaintiffs' complaints against the manufacturers allege both cancer and asbestosis. To [adopt a fact-based trigger theory that would] treat cancer and asbestosis differently would needlessly complicate settlement and defense of the individual lawsuits. We see no reason to create more difficulties for the parties than already exist in this complicated case.”
1 later decision 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.