Kalmbach, Inc. v. Insurance Co. of Pennsylvania, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
529 F.2d 552 · 1976
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Ingersoll Milling Machine Co. v. M/V Bodena (1987), M/V American Queen v. San Diego Marine Contruction Corp. (1983)
23 federal appellate · 7 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 65 Cal. 2d 263 - Gray v. Zurich Insurance Co. · Wilburn Boat Company v. Fireman's Fund Insurance Company · Kossick v. United Fruit Co. · 10 Cal. 3d 193 - State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Jacober · 6 Cal. 3d 699 - Harris v. Glens Falls 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e can see no significant difference between construction of an ordinary insurance policy and one with marine insurance overtones. In general, each is to be construed against the insurance company.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“because both parties urge us to do so and because there is no statutory or judicially established federal admiralty rule governing the provisions in question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[w]hether federal or local law applies to a maritime insurance contract can present a troublesome question.”
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.