Hamilton v. Home Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
137 U.S. 370 · 1890
Citation profile
64 federal appellate · 7 district · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 189 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1996 · most notably United States v. Lineas Winans (1905), Red Cross Line v. Atlantic Fruit Co. (1924)
64 federal appellate · 7 district · 81 state decisions — followed in 25 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 Hamilton v. Liverpool, London & Globe Insurance · President of Delaware & Hudson Canal Co. v. Pennsylvania Coal Co. · Reed v. Washington Fire & Marine Insurance · Seward v. . City of Rochester
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 189 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In case differences shall arise touching any loss or damage after proof thereof has been received in due form, the matter shall, at the written request of either party, be submitted to impartial arbitrators, whose award in writing shall be binding on the parties as to the amount of such loss or damage, but shail not decide the liability of the company under this policy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““But when no such condition is expressed in the contract, or necessarily to be implied from its terms, it is equally well settled that the agreement for submitting the amount to arbitration is collateral and independent, and that a breach of this agreement, while it will support a separate action, cannot be pleaded in bar to an action on the principal contract.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““If the contract * '* * provides that no action upon it shall be maintained until after such an award, * * * the award is a condition precedent to the right of action.””
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.