King v. Preston’s Empirical Analysis
1856
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 1950
6 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is needless, therefore, to determine whether the defendants were or were not entitled to recover from the insurance company. Unless the defendants received money which the plaintiff was entitled to recover, the latter has no ground of complaint. It matters not how much money the defendants may have received improperly from the insurers, the plaintiff could not be injured by such payment. We must consider the case, therefore, precisely as if no insurance whatever had been effected.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.