Continental Insurance Companies v. Northeastern Pharmaceutical & Chemical Company, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
842 F.2d 977 · 1988
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 19 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 152 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2022 · most notably Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. (1988), 154 Ill. 2d 90 - Outboard Marine Corp. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance (1992)
32 federal appellate · 19 district · 39 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 6973 · 42 U.S.C. § 9604 (§ 104 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980) · 42 U.S.C. § 9607 (§ 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980)
Relies on Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Remmer v. United States · Andrijevic v. Kelleran · Wood v. Strickland · Red Ball Motor Freight, Inc. v. Shannon
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 152 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are essentially equitable actions for monetary relief”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all sums which the insured shall become legally obligated to pay as damages”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“clean-up costs are not encompassed within the meaning of the word 'damages' in the standard form [comprehensive general liability] policies at issue.”
3 later decisions 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.