Daggs v. Orient Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2017 · most notably Orient Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Daggs (1869), New York Life Insurance v. Cravens (1900)
2 federal appellate · 52 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 Paul v. Virginia · Bank of Augusta v. Earle · St. Clair v. Cox · Lafayette Insurance v. French · Railroad Company v. Koontz Railroad Company
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The manifest policy of the statute is to prevent, rather than encourage, overinsurance, and to guard, as far as possible, against carelessness, and every inducement to destroy property in order to procure the insurance upon it. It was also designed to prevent insurance companies from taking reckless risks in order to obtain large premiums by advising them in advance that they *Page 120 would be held to the value agreed upon when the insurance was written.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The policy of the law seems to as wise and wholesome, but, if it were not, it is the province of the Legislature to repeal it, and not ours to usurp legislative authority. More care in the selection of agents and more care in the inspection of the insured property will dispense with many of the objections urged against the policy of this statute.”
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.