Liberty Mutual Insurance Company v. Commercial Union Insurance Company’s Empirical Analysis
978 F.3d 750 · 1992
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Pritzker v. Yari (1994), McCarthy v. Azure (1994)
67 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Cannon v. University of Chicago · Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission · United States v. Mitchell · Santoni v. United States
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“employer during claimant's tenure of employment, prior to the date claimant became aware of the fact that he was suffering from an occupational disease arising naturally out of his employment, should be held responsible . . . . 17 Id. at 145. We have adopted a modified version of this”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the employer during the last employment in which the claimant was exposed to injurious stimuli, prior to the date upon which the claimant became aware of the fact that he was suffering from an occupation disease . . . [is] liable for the full amount of the [LHWCA] award.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“on the one hand, and the employment, on the other hand, started the running of the 30-day statutory period for filing claim notices, and claims had to be filed within a year after awareness of”
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.