East Coast Tender Service, Inc. v. Robert T. Winzinger, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
759 F.2d 280 · 1985
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2014
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 Griffin v. United States · Barefoot v. Estelle · Gregg v. Rahm · Leary v. United States · Continental Oil Co. v. Bonanza Corp.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““in construing an insurance policy reference must be made to the reasonable expectations of the parties as to the risks and protection against them.” ... removal is “compulsory by law” when it is “reasonably required by law, [i.e., a legal duty imposed by statute], or where failure to remove ... reasonably expose[s] an insured to liability imposed by law sufficiently great to justify the expense of removal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“) to operate two barges on the Delaware River as a temporary loading facility. In February 1979, while covered by an insurance policy containing a clause similar to that at issue here, the barges were damaged in a storm. The policy expired at the end of March 1979, but Winzinger continued to operate the barges as a loading facility until September. In April 1980, Winzinger”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Fifth Circuit's more expansive interpretation of the term 'compelled by law.' " Id. at 286. We wrote that this phrase "in the context of this type of insurance policy should not be restricted to situations in which an express order from a governmental body directs removal.”
1 later decision 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.