Sun Ins Office v. Scott Norwich Union Fire Ins Soc’s Empirical Analysis
284 U.S. 177 · 1931
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently March 1982 · most notably Calcote v. Texas Pac. Coal & Oil Co. (1946), E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Company, and United States of America v. Lyles & Lang Construction Company (1955)
57 federal appellate · 22 state decisions — followed in 12 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
reviewedHome Ins. Co. of New York v. Scott (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Bates v. Equitable Insurance · Hunt v. Springfield Fire & Marine Insurance · Home Ins. Co. of New York v. Scott · 117 Ohio St. 145 - Hartford Fire Ins. Co v. Glass
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The provision in the policies prohibiting chattel mortgages without consent indorsed on the policy is intended to reduce the moral hazard, and is a valid stipulation, the violation of which constitutes a complete defense” —citing Hunt v. Springfield Fire & Marine Ins. Co., supra.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““This entire policy, unless otherwise provided by agreement endorsed hereon or added hereto, shall be void * * * if the subject of insurance be personal property and be or become encumbered by a chattel mortgage.” (Italics ours.)”
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.