Hardware Mutual Insurance Company of Minnesota and Hardware, Dealers Mutual Fire Insurance Company v. C. A. Snyder, Inc., a Pennsylvania Corporation, Hardware Mutual Insurance Company of Minnesota and Hardware Dealers Mutual Fire Insurance Company v. C. A. Snyder, Inc., a Pennsylvania, Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
242 F.2d 64 · 1957
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2010
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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 Cannon v. Bresch · Naim v. Naim · Springfield Township v. Indemnity Insurance Co. of North America · Fredericks v. Atlantic Refining Co. · Vennen v. New Dells Lumber 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Accident' is a word of broad scope and includes many unfortunate occurrences not anticipated in the ordinary course of affairs. The wilful act is not embraced by the word, but the negligently-caused happening is understood to be an `accident.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The fact that the buildings were a unit and the parties could contemplate that if one burned, the other would burn, does not affect lessee’s responsibility under the terms of the lease. As we observed with reference to lessee’s liability as to 229, a waiver of responsibility for negligence must be expressed in clear and precise language.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If accident and negligence be not opposites, we cannot regard them as identical, without confounding cause and effect. Accident, and its synonyms casualty and misfortune, may proceed or result from negligence, or other cause known, or unknown.”
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.