Aetna Insurance v. Hyde’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
2 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2003 · most notably State Ex Rel. Commissioner of Insurance v. North Carolina Rate Bureau (1980), National Fire Ins. Co. of Hartford v. Thompson (1930)
2 district · 40 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.
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is hereby empowered to investigate the necessity for a reduction of rates, and if, upon such investigation, it appears, that the result of the earnings in this state of the stock'fire insurance companies for five years next preceding such'investigation shows there has been an aggregate profit therein in excess of what is reasonable, he shall order such reduction of rates as shall be necessary to limit the aggregate collections by insurance companies in this state to not more than a reasonable profit. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.