German Alliance Insurance v. Hale’s Empirical Analysis
219 U.S. 307 · 1911
Citation profile
3 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1999 · most notably Mondou v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (1912), United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Ass'n (1944)
3 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Relationships
Relies on Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Joseph Lochner v. People of the State of New York · Henning Jacobson v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Barbier v. Connolly · Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co.
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We concur entirely in the opinion expressed by the state court that the statute does not infringe the federal Constitution, nor deprive the insurance company of .any right granted or secured by that instrument. The business of fire insurance is, as every one knows, of an extensive and peculiar character, and its management concerns a very large number of people, particularly those who own property and desire to protect themselves by insurance. We can well understand that fire insurance companies, acting together, may have owners of property practically at their mercy in the matter of rates, and may have it in their power to deprive the public generally of the advantages flowing from competition between rival organizations engaged in the business of fire insurance. In order to meet the evils of such combinations or associations, the state is competent to adopt appropriate regulations that will tend to substitute competition in the place of combination or monopoly. Carroll v. Greenwich Ins. Co., 199 TI. S. 401, 411 [ 26 Sup. Ct. 66 , 50 L. Ed. 246 ]. ' Regulations, having a real, substantial relation to that end, and which are not essentially arbitrary, cannot properly be characterized as a deprivation of property without due process of law. They are enacted under the power with which the states have never parted, of caring for the common good within the limits of constitutional authority. Insurance companies, indeed, all corporations, associations, and individuals, within the”
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.