General Mutual Insurance v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““So far as the above cited clauses are concerned plaintiff’s position may be summarized as follows: Until the work was completed Wright Engineering Co. had custody of the steel and this coverage was excluded by the first clause; that when it relinquished custody, the work was completed and coverage was excluded by the second clause. This argument is specious. It assumes that in order to work on something you must have custody of it. This is certainly not true of a large steel frame, furnished by someone else and being erected on still another party’s property. Furthermore, it overlooks the fact that the action against Wright sought to recover for all the damage, not just the damage to the steel.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kirchner v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.