Aetna Ins Co Kennedy Bogash Springfield Fire Marine Ins Co v. Same Liverpool & London & Globe Ins Co Limited’s Empirical Analysis
301 U.S. 389 · 1937
Citation profile
322 federal appellate · 70 district · 253 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,010 later decisions (52 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Glasser v. United States (1942), Schneckloth v. Bustamonte (1973)
322 federal appellate · 70 district · 253 state decisions — followed in 32 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
reviewedKennedy v. Ætna Ins. (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Patton v. United States · Dimick v. Schiedt · Slocum v. New York Life Insurance · Baltimore & Carolina Line, Inc. v. Redman
Cited together with Johnson v. Zerbst · Ohio Bell Telephone Co. v. Public Utilities Commission · Fuentes v. Shevin · Glasser v. United States · College Savings Bank v. Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board
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 1,010 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“indulge every reasonable presumption against waiver”
33 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The mortgagee clause created a contract of insurance between [the mortgagee] and the company and effected separate insurance upon [its] interest.”
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.