Dreiling v. MacIuszek’s Empirical Analysis

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2 district ·

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

1. “Insurance contracts are after all eon-tracts, with the drafters of the documents able (like patentees in their own patent applications) to serve as their own lexicographers. If for example a contracting party wanted to use the word “apple” in a contract to include “tomato,” and if the party effectively reflected that intention in an appropriate way, that party would be entirely free to do so. And the fact that someone else who was unaware of that special usage, but who simply heard the word “apple,” would not understand that “tomato” was also meant to be included (understandably, because it is not normally spoken of as an apple) would not make the slightest difference to the validity of that meaning in contractual terms.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 284 F. Supp. 2d 1102 - Haslund v. Simon Property Group, Inc.

2. “Marine insurance is such a specialty that the use of brokers by vessel owners is not only very general but almost necessary for the benefit of the insured owners ....”). 27 . That Diller asserts that he”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 678 F. Supp. 2d 288 - New Hampshire Ins. Co. v. Diller