Continental Assur. Co. v. Conroy’s Empirical Analysis
209 F.2d 539 · 1954
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2006 · most notably Rieser v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (1955), Gerr v. Emrick (1960)
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Stipcich v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · Aschenbrenner v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Murray v. United States · Pacific Portland Cement Co. v. Food Machinery & Chemical Corp. · Sullivan v. Maroney
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“well-established principle that in construing an ambiguous contract [of insurance] the conduct of the parties . . . is to be considered in determining its meaning and is persuasive evidence of the actual, practical construction which the parties have placed upon the contract and its meaning”
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.