Oster v. Riley’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2012
18 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 · James McLanahan Wilhelmus Bogart and John Joseph Coiron v. The Universal Insurance Company · Seavey Ex Rel. Ellis v. Erickson · 34 Ill. 2d 310 - Carroll v. Preferred Risk Insurance · Rommel v. New Brunswick Fire Insurance 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As in the case of any other contract, to constitute a contract of insurance, the parties’ minds must meet and concur as to terms. * * * If [on May 18] both parties had been ignorant of the loss, it would have been competent for them, by antedating the policy, to have made it retroactive. But in fact the plaintiff then knew that the property had been destroyed, but did not communicate that fact to defendant’s agent, who, in ignorance of the loss, accepted the risk, and issued the policy. Under these circumstances, the policy is void, and does not cover the loss.”
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.