Sharp v. Niagara Fire Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2002
1 federal appellate · 18 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 Havens v. Germania Fire Insurance · Bell v. Campbell · Stevens v. Norwich Union Fire Insurance · State ex rel. Steel v. Phillips · Rudd v. American Guarantee Fund Mutual Fire 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This company shall not be liable beyond the actual cash value of the property at the time any loss or damage occurs, and the loss or damage shall he ascertained or estimated according to such actual cash value, with proper reduction for depreciation, however, caused.””
2 later decisions 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.