Biays v. The Chesapeake Insurance Company’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions

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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If this clause [meaning the sue and labor clause] be construed with reference to what is most evidently its subject-matter — that is, a loss within the policy — and in Connection with other parts of the instrument, it seems impossible to misunderstand it, or that it should receive so extensive an application as the plaintiff is desirous of giving to it. The parties certainly meant to apply it only to the case of those losses or injuries for which the assurers, if they had happened, would have been responsible.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Munson v. Standard Marine Ins. · 944 F. Supp. 2d 1013 - RK Mechanical, Inc. v. Travelers Property Casualty Co. of America

2. ““The proposition appears too self-evident not to command universal assent, that when only a part of a cargo, consisting all of the same kind of articles, Is lost in any way whatever, and the residue (which in this case amounts to much the greater part) arrives in safety at its port of destination, the loss cannot but be partial, and that this must forever be so, as long as a part continues to be less than the whole.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Woodside v. Canton Ins. Office