Moultroup v. Gorham’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably Farmers Ins. Exchange v. Arlt (1953), Luneau v. Peerless Insurance (2000)
27 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The right of the insurer against the defendant (the wrongdoer) does not rest upon any relation of contract or. privity between them. It arises out of the nature of the contract of in- ■ surance as a contract of indemnity, and is derived from the insured alone, and can be enforced only in his right and must be worked out through the cause of action which the insured had. (Citing cases.)””
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.