New Madrid County Reorganized School District No. 1 v. Continental Casualty Co.’s Empirical Analysis
904 F.2d 1236 · 1990
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2018
6 federal appellate · 7 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on DeWitt v. American Family Mutual Insurance Co. · Robin v. Blue Cross Hospital Service, Inc. · Central Surety & Insurance v. New Amsterdam Casualty Co. · State v. Miles Laboratories, Inc. · 58 Or. App. 692 - SCHOOL DIST. NO. 1, ETC. v. Mission Ins. Co.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We note that the teachers' action was brought in federal court pursuant to 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983 because of the First Amendment issues involved. Had the suit been based only on breach of contract it would have involved purely state law questions and would not have been cognizable in federal court, absent diversity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The insuring clause extends coverage to “wrongful acts” and nothing in the policy’s definition of that term or its list of exclusions suggests that intentional wrongdoing was not meant to be covered. * * * Even if we considered the language to be ambiguous in that, for example, it is quite general, we would still conclude that there is coverage because under Missouri law it is well established that ambiguities in insurance contracts are construed in favor of the insured.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If Continental Casualty wanted to exclude this type of liability from its policy it could and should have done so explicitly. Absent an explicit exclusion, we must apply the language as written.”
1 later decision 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.