FL Aerospace v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.’s Empirical Analysis
897 F.2d 214 · 1990
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Hybud Equipment Corp. v. Sphere Drake Insurance (1992), Morton International, Inc. v. General Accident Insurance (1993)
31 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Kentucky Eastern District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · West v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Vandenbark v. Owens-Illinois Glass Co. · Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope v. Atlantic Richfield Co. · United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company v. Star Fire Coals Inc
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a datum for ascertaining state law which is not to be disregarded by a federal court unless it is convinced by other persuasive data that the highest court of the state would decide otherwise.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] sudden and accidental event is one that happens quickly, without warning, and fortuitously or unintentionally.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“ha[s] the burden of proof, both the burden of producing evidence and the burden of persuasion, as to whether the 'sudden and accidental' exception to the pollution exclusion applies.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.