Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
682 F.2d 12 · 1982
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 37 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 203 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably 10 Cal. 4th 645 - Montrose Chemical Corp. v. Admiral Insurance (1995), O'Stricker v. Jim Walter Corp. (1983)
66 federal appellate · 37 district · 46 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Urie v. Thompson · Amperex Electronic Corp. v. New York Racing Assn., Inc. · Gerry v. United States · Railway Labor Executives' Ass'n v. Ogilvie · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, 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 203 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“over 90% of all urban city dwellers have asbestos-related scarring.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“becomes reasonably capable of medical diagnosis,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the meaning of the policy terms remains [in the end] unclear, the policy is generally construed in favor of the insured in order to promote the policy's objective of providing coverage.”
3 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.