Baggaley v. Aetna Ins.’s Empirical Analysis
111 F.2d 134 · 1940
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2006
7 federal appellate ·
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But we are of the opinion that in construing the word “engineers” we must consider the special type of policy involved and must not isolate the term from its context. The particular peril insured against is the negligence of master, mariners, engineers, and pilots .... In view of the context the term “engineers” obviously refers to persons engaged in seafaring activities, and the peril insured against is the negligence of masters, mariners, engineers or pilots in their respective capacities as seamen employees. It would not follow from what we are saying that one who is in fact acting as a boat engineer would cease to be such if he were to engage in the work performed by Mattson [the engineer], if such work could be said to be reasonably related to the normal functions of a boat engineer. But the converse is not true, that one who is engaged to perform purely mechanical work on the engines of a boat becomes an engineer within the meaning of the policy while performing such work. For example, if at the end of the season... Mattson, while still acting in the capacity of the yacht’s engineer, and as incident to his duties as such engineer, had been negligent in laying up the boat for the winter and as a result had caused damage thereto, there would be substantial ground for contending that any damage resulting from his negligence would come within the protection of the policy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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