Beddow v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably 147 Ill. 2d 437 - Zannini v. Reliance Insurance of Illinois, Inc. (1992), 110 Ind. App. 143 - Travelers Insurance Co. v. Eviston (1941)
8 federal appellate · 23 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 Snell v. Insurance Co. · Continental Insurance v. Ruckman · Phenix Insurance v. Stocks · Phenix Insurance v. Hart · Capps v. National Union Fire Insurance
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“_ “An insurance company may waive any conditions or provisions inserted in the policy for its benefit and such waiver may be expressed or implied, which may arise from acts, words, conduct, notice or knowledge on the part of the insurer. . . . “An insurance company that knowingly takes a premium for a policy under conditions that would render it invalid, will not be permitted to say that it is not a binding contract for that reason. In all such cases the company will be regarded as having the same knowledge of the conditions and situation of the property as is possessed by the agent transacting the business for it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It has long been the settled law in this State that a party has an insurable interest in property from the existence of which he receives a benefit or from the destruction of which he will suffer a pecuniary loss, although he has no title to or possession of the premises.””
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.