Corder v. Morgan Roofing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 2001 · most notably Craig v. Iowa Kemper Mutual Insurance Co. (1978), Schimmel Fur Co. v. American Indemnity Co. (1969)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 31 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 Rutherford v. Tobin Quarries, Inc. · State Ex Rel. Potashnick v. Blair · 228 Mo. App. 319 - Gaines v. Berkshire Life Insurance · State Ex Rel. Mills Lumber Co. v. Trimble · Doherty's Case
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`Speaking to insurance contracts, it is a just and settled rule that their restrictive terms shall be taken most strongly against the insurer. The doctrine of contra proferentem is strictly applied with unaccommodating vigor, and, as said, ambiguities are blandly resolved in favor of the insured. So that, if the contract in suit is open to two constructions, one favorable to the insured and one not, if the insured has acted on the favorable construction, courts will take his view of the contract, being always mindful that the principal obligation (the very life and soul) of a policy is to pay the policy face when the contingency or event happens upon which payment is predicated.'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“plaintiffs herein proceeded under the general execution garnishment statutes”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Melissa Lancaster
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.