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20-2052·CIVIL

Westfield Insurance Company v. Sistersville Tank Works, Inc.

Status
  1. Scheduled
  2. Argued (current)
  3. Opinion Issued
Argument Date
October 26, 2022
Argument Time
9:30 a.m.
Panel
II
Courtroom
Butzner Courtroom (Room 201)
Lower Court Judge
Bailey

Panel

Judge Agee
Judge Wynn
Senior Judge Motz

Citation

CaseWestfield Insurance Company v. Sistersville Tank Works, Inc., No. 20-2052 (4th Cir. argued Oct. 26, 2022)
PanelMotz, S.J., Agee & Wynn, JJ.

Arguing Counsel

Panel That Day

2 of 3 cases argued October 26, 2022 before this panel have been decided.

Authorship Outlook

With the 2 decided siblings already credited to Judge Wynn and Judge Agee, the remaining opinion is most likely Senior Judge Motz's — they wrote at least one opinion in 42 of their 60 prior multi-case days.

2 of the 3 opinions from this panel have been decided. Decided opinions have been authored by Judge Wynn and Judge Agee.

This is a statistical guess based on prior sittings in this dataset, not a prediction of the ruling.

Predicted Opinion Release

Likely between December 9, 2026 and August 13, 2031, with September 9, 2027 the most likely date.

Argued 1463 days ago. The case has now outlasted nearly every comparable prior case (100% of mass consumed); a separate writing or a contentious majority is likely in progress.

■ ■ ■Calibrated from a deep history (560 prior subject cases + 7 prior panel cases)

80% predictive interval from a log-logistic accelerated-failure-time model fit on 2,134 prior decided cases plus 111 currently-pending cases as right-censored evidence. Updates as days pass with no opinion. How this is calculated →