Wright v. Fire Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 1962 · most notably 58 Cal. 2d 862 - Steven v. Fidelity & Casualty Co. (1962), Glens Falls Insurance Co. v. Michael (1905)
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Paul v. . Travelers' Ins. Co. · Curtis and Others v. . Leavitt · Queen Insurance v. Young · Hartford Fire Insurance v. Walsh · Utter v. Travelers' Insurance
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No mention was made that the company would not take a risk on mortgaged property. ... It seems to us that it would be unjust to the insurer, as well as the assured, to put such a construction on the transaction.”
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.