Owens-Illinois, Inc. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.’s Empirical Analysis
990 F.2d 865 · 1993
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Lansing v. City of Memphis (2000), United States v. Demjanjuk (2004)
20 federal appellate · 5 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 Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Walling US v. General Industries Co · South Central Enterprises, Inc. v. Farrington · Modjeski & Masters, Applicant, V · Hybud Equipment Corp. v. Sphere Drake Insurance
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under Ohio law, where, as in this case, a term in an insurance contract is not defined, it is to be given its ordinary meaning: T}ie law in this state is well-established with respect to the interpretation of insurance contracts. A court has an obligation to give plain language its ordinary meaning,...””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'the reviewing court on the entire evidence is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Findings of fact, whether based on oral or documentary evidence, shall not be set aside unless clearly erroneous, and due regard shall be given to the opportunity of the trial court to judge of the credibility of the witnesses.”
2 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.