San Juan Dupont Plaza Hotel Fire Litigation Holders Capital Corporation v. California Union Insurance Company’s Empirical Analysis
989 F.2d 36 · 1993
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 35 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Lawton v. State Mutual Life Assurance Co. of America (1996), Ruiz Rivera v. Riley (2000)
58 federal appellate · 35 district · 2 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Fashion House, Inc. v. K Mart Corp. · United States v. Slade · Recticel Foam Corporation San Juan Dupont Plaza Hotel Fire Litigation Recticel Foam Corporation
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a trial court has produced a first-rate work product, a reviewing tribunal should hesitate to wax longiloquent simply to hear its own words resonate.”
17 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.