Continental Ins. Co. v. Riggs’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently January 2013
3 federal appellate · 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 Stuyvesant Insurance Company v. Barkett · Stevenson v. Phœnix Insurance · Kennedy v. Mennonite Mutual Fire Insurance · Randolph Lumber Co. v. Western Silo Co. · Glens Falls Insurance Co. v. Jacobs
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A person cannot, however, after the property has been destroyed, accept a /policy which was procured without his knowledge or consent, and which, at all times prior to the fire, he had no intention to accept, having relied up to this time upon a policy upon the same property procured by himself, without accepting all of the provisions of the policy which had been procured without his knowledge. After a loss one may ratify the act of another who had procured a policy for him without his knowledge or authority, yet if he does so he adopts, the whole policy." (Emphasis ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Assuming this to be true, there was obviously no actual contract between the parties, unless it resulted from the plaintiff electing to ratify what had been done in his behalf and to treat the policy as though it had been properly issued upon his request. But he was required to adopt the transaction as a whole, or not at all. He could not accept its benefits and repudiate its burdens." (Emphasis ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The object of nonliability clauses of this type is to prevent the moral hazard from being increased without the knowledge of the insurer, who has assumed the risk. When several policies exist upon the same property, the desire on the part of the insured to prevent destruction by fire is greatly decreased.””
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.