Orient Ins. v. Skellet Co.’s Empirical Analysis
28 F.2d 968 · 1928
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2012
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 Hamilton v. Liverpool, London & Globe Insurance · Home Insurance Company v. Baltimore Warehouse Company · California Insurance v. Union Compress Co. · Mills v. Merchants' Cotton-Press Co. · Fire Insurance Ass'n of England v. Merchants & Miners' Transportation 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Concededly, Skellet Co.’s relation to the owners of the stored goods and its interest in them was such as entitled it to take out insurance for their protection. Any expression in an insurance contract signifying that intent and purpose is sufficient. To that end the clause ‘for which they may be legally liable’ should have been omitted, or there should have been a statement that the goods described were held in trust, or a similar expression of like import should have been used, — and then there could be no doubt that the contract was made in the name of Skellet Co. for the benefit of the real owners.” 28 F.2d at 970 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“upon the property, interests and legal liability of the Boston Maine Railroad.”
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.