The Aetna Casualty and Surety Company v. F. H. Hanna and Margaret Hanna, His Wife’s Empirical Analysis
224 F.2d 499 · 1955
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 9 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 154 Ill. 2d 90 - Outboard Marine Corp. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance (1992), 51 Cal. 3d 807 - AIU Insurance v. Superior Court (1990)
16 federal appellate · 9 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Brock v. Hardie · C. E. Carnes & Co. v. Employers' Liability Assur. Corp., Ltd. of London · Desrochers v. New York Casualty Co. · Gasque v. Ball
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A pecuniary compensation or indemnity which may be recovered in the courts by any person who has suffered loss, detriment or injury, whether to his person, property, or rights, through the unlawful act or omission or negligence of another.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all sums which the Insured shall become obligated to pay by reason of the liability imposed upon him by law . . . for money damages resulting from . . . unfair competition”
3 later decisions 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.