37 Ala. App. 74 - Milwaukee Mechanics Ins. Co. v. Maples’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently July 2003 · most notably Rametta v. Stella (1990), Paramount Fire Insurance v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. (1962)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 39 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 Dubin Paper Co. v. Insurance Co. of North America · Moore v. Williamson · Queen Insurance v. Young · Great American Ins. Co. v. Dover · Alabama State Mutual Assurance Co. v. Long Clothing & Shoe Co.
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[the insurer's] liability must, under the contract, be measured by the fire damage at the time of the loss and not by fortuitous circumstances later befalling the insured and to which [the insurer] was in no wise privy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The mortgagee then sought to recover on the policy. The Supreme Court held that the purchase of the property for the full amount of the debt satisfied the mortgage and the mortgagee was not entitled to recover more. Under facts of this type the mortgagee's insurable interest is the debt. Such interest diminishes as the debt is paid, and becomes nonexistent when the debt is paid in full.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ * * * So long as a contract is executory the parties are at liberty to modify it at pleasure. No new consideration is necessary, mutual consent being sufficient. * * * ””
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.