Jeffcott v. Ætna Ins.’s Empirical Analysis
129 F.2d 582 · 1942
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Acadia Insurance v. McNeil (1997), Royal Insurance Company of America v. Pier Limited Partnership (1984)
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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.
Relationships
Relies on Insurance Company v. Dunham · the Francis McDonald Thames Towboat Co v. The Francis McDonald · Marcardier v. The Chesapeake Insurance Company · The Guiding Star · Hodgson v. The Marine Insurance Company of Alexandria
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] non-marine insurance company might be familiar with damage from fire, theft, storm; it would not be prepared to assume such risks where the insured article was a ship. It would recognize that the risk took on a different character when a ship became the object insured,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in a general sense, and not in the particular sense of certain types of marine insurance related to the sea in a special way.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the insurer assumes risks which are marine risks.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.