Monroe v. British & Foreign Marine Ins.’s Empirical Analysis
52 F. 777 · 1892
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 1975
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Behymer · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Cox · Delaware Co v. Converse · Meehan v. Valentine · Commissioners of Marion County v. Clark
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Undoubtedly the underwriters may so deal with property in peril as to convert wbat otherwise would be a partial loss into an absolute total one, or so as to bar themselves from denying that such a loss has accrued. But when the assured has obtained the benefit of a low premium by covering absolute total loss only, then, in view thereof, and also in view of the fact that public policy requires that all interests should he encouraged to use the sue and labor or rescue clauses to the fullest extent, whatever may be done in that direction by the underwriters, as well as by the owners, in unintentional excess of power, should not be made a trap.””
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.