Stipcich v. Metropolitan Life Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
277 U.S. 311 · 1928
Citation profile
367 federal appellate · 85 district · 212 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 837 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2021 · most notably Bergholm v. Peoria Life Ins. (1932), Landress v. Phoenix Mut Life Ins Co (1934)
367 federal appellate · 85 district · 212 state decisions — followed in 34 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedNew York Life Ins. v. Moats (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Cunningham v. Brown · American Surety Co of New York v. Pauly · Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York v. Hilton-Green · Mutual Life Insurance v. Hurni Packing 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 837 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Insurance policies are traditionally contracts uberrimae fidei and a failure by the insured to disclose conditions affecting the risk, of which he is aware, makes the contract voidable at the insurer's option.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any person who solicits or procures an application for insurance shall in all matters relating to such application for insurance and the policy issued in consequence thereof be regarded as the agent of the insurer issuing the policy and not the agent of the insured.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“imposed by law as a result of ... the peculiar character of the insurance contract.”
2 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.