American Motorists Insurance v. General Host Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
946 F.2d 1482 · 1991
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 12 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably Morton International, Inc. v. General Accident Insurance (1993), 126 Wash. 2d 50 - Queen City Farms, Inc. v. Central Nat'l Ins. Co. of Omaha (1995)
17 federal appellate · 12 district · 10 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.
Relationships
Relies on Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · Alexander v. United States · McKesson Corp. v. Division of Alcoholic Beverages & Tobacco · Granito v. United States · Thompson v. Thompson
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here is a sharp division of authority on the issue of whether pollution that occurs over an extended period of time is 'sudden' within the meaning of the pollution exclusion.... However, we have found no similar division of authority concerning the meaning of the term 'accidental.' The courts have interpreted 'accidental' to refer to pollution which is not expected or intended by the insured.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“affirm the language of Petromanagement [Corp. v. Acme-Thomas Joint Venture, 835 F.2d 1329 (10th Cir.1988) ] and the Restatement and apply federal preclusion law except where the matter is distinctly substantive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he duty to indemnify is determined by the facts as they are established at trial or as they are finally determined by some other means.”
1 later decision 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.