Commercial Casualty Ins. v. Fowles’s Empirical Analysis
154 F.2d 884 · 1946
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2004 · most notably Horton v. Liberty Mutual Insurance (1961), Aralac, Inc. v. Hat Corp. (1948)
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 41
Relies on Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth · Reiner v. United States · Monamotor Oil Co. v. Johnson · Thompson v. Thompson · Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen v. Pinkston
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Obviously, no right to such ‘future benefits’ existed at the time the action was commenced. No one, at that time, knew or could have known whether such a right would ever exist. Therefore, as to such ‘future benefits,’ there was and could have been, at that time, no controversy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“claimant may institute a suit in equity in * * * the district court of the United States for the district in which such claimant resides * * * to establish the interest, right, title, or debt so claimed * * *.”
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.