St Louis Dressed Beef Provision Company v. Maryland Casualty Company’s Empirical Analysis
201 U.S. 173 · 1906
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 13 district · 161 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 273 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. McBride (1958), Griggs v. Bertram (1982)
56 federal appellate · 13 district · 161 state decisions — followed in 33 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 Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Hamilton v. Liverpool, London & Globe Insurance · William Tayloe v. The Merchants' Fire Insurance Company of Baltimore · Hinckley v. Pittsburgh Bessemer Steel Co. · Sanders v. Frankfort Marine, Accident & Plate Glass 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 273 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We assume that the settlement was reasonable, and that the plaintiff could not expect to escape at less cost by defending the suits. If this were otherwise, no doubt the defendant would profit by the fact. The defendant did not agree to repay a gratuity, or more than fairly could be said to have been paid upon compulsion. But a sum paid in the prudent settlement of a suit is paid under the compulsion of the suit as truly as if it were paid upon execution.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“i “Looking at the substance of the matter, it makes no practical difference * * * whether we say that the defendant, by its conduct, made performance of the conditions by the plaintiff impossible, and therefore was chargeable for the sum which it would have had to pay if those conditions had been performed, or answer, * * * that performance of the conditions was waived. * * * ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Did the denial of all liability by the assurer and its refusal to defend the suits in the name and on behalf of the assured as provided by paragraph 2 of the policy constitute such a breach of the contract on its part that it released the assured from its agreement in paragraph 3 that it would not settle any claim except at its own cost without the consent of the assurer previously given in writing, and from the provision of paragraph 8 that no action should lie against the assurer as respects any loss unless for loss actually sustained and paid by the assured in satisfaction of a judgment after trial of the issue?””
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.