Mitchell v. Potomac Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
183 U.S. 42 · 1901
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 6 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1982 · most notably Ceco Corp. v. Coleman (1982), Decker v. Korth (1955)
22 federal appellate · 6 district · 50 state decisions — followed in 18 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Griggs v. Houston · Gunther v. Liverpool L G Ins Co · Transatlantic Fire Insurance v. Dorsey · Briggs v. North American & Mercantile 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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘When the word “explosion” was used in the policy, the company as ordinary men, . . . and the party insured an ordinary man, are presumed to have understood the word “explosion” in its ordinary and popular sense. Not what some scientific man would define to be an explosion, but what the ordinary man would understand to be meant by that word. ’ ””
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.