Harrow Products, Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 1 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Here, unlike the Titan, Pipefitters and Hirschberg cases, no showing has been made that Harrow Products is threatened with liability for interfering with property owners’ or occupants’ rights of private occupancy. No private occupants of property have filed claims in either action. Nor has the MDNR or Village of Saranac asserted claims as subrogees of, or in some other representative capacity for, occupants of property. The MDNR and Village of Saranac actions, asserting claims under the Michigan Water Resources Commission Act, the Michigan Environmental Protection Act, and CERCLA based on the “people’s” interest in uncontaminated groundwater, cannot reasonably be characterized as premised upon interference with rights of private occupancy.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Great Northern Nekoosa Corp. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · City of Delray Beach Florida v. Agricultural Insurance Co

2. “This insurance does not apply: ... (f) to bodily injury or property damage arising out of the discharge, dispersal, release or escape of smoke, vapors, soot, fumes, acids, alkalis, toxic chemicals, liquids or gases, waste materials or other irritants, contaminants, or pollutants into or upon land, the atmosphere or any water course or body of water; but this exclusion does not apply if such discharge, dispersal, release or escape is sudden and accidental____”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Great Northern Nekoosa Corp. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.

3. “invasion of the right of private occupancy.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. City of Delray Beach Florida v. Agricultural Insurance Co