Mellon v. Hingham Mutual Fire Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2010
2 federal appellate · 7 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 Quincy Mutual Fire Insurance v. Abernathy · 1 Mass. App. Ct. 762 - Standard Electric Supply Co. v. Norfolk & Dedham Mutual Fire Insurance · 7 Mass. App. Ct. 281 - Slater v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · McDonough v. Hardware Dealers 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“loss was caused by an accidental break rather than a natural occurrence”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`caused by, resulting from, contributed to or aggravated by . . . water below the surface of the ground including that which exerts pressure on or flows, seeps or leaks through basement. . . . floors,'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An `all risk' policy is intended to insure against a `fortuitous' event. . . . Moreover, such fortuities are insured against even if they are not specified in the policy . . . As an insurer has the option to exclude from coverage certain risks, . . . it is not surprising that `all risk' policies contain specific exclusions.”
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.