The Chesapeake Insurance Company v. Stark’s Empirical Analysis
10 U.S. 268 · 1810
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1989 · most notably Grace v. American Central Insurance (1883), Phœnix Insurance v. Erie & Western Transportation Co. (1886)
20 federal appellate · 3 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 Skillern's Executors v. May's Executors
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the abandonment was legal, it put the underwriters completely in the place of the assured, and Parker became their agent. When he contracts on behalf of the owners of the goods, he contracts on behalf of the underwriters, who have become owners, not on behalf of Starr, who has ceased to be one.””
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.