Insurance Companies v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
68 U.S. 456 · 1863
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 5 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2013 · most notably Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Co. v. Boston Marine Insurance (1890), Carnegie Steel Company v. United States (1916)
16 federal appellate · 5 district · 12 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An express contract of the parties is always admissible to supersede or vary or control a usage or custom, for the latter may always be waived at the will of the parties. But a written and express contract cannot be controlled or varied or contradicted by a usage or custom, for that would not only be to admit parol evidence to control, vary, or contradict written contracts, but it would be to allow mere presumptions and implications properly arising in the absence of positive expressions of intention to control, vary, or contradict the most formal and deliberate written declarations of the parties.” Insurance Co. v. Wright, 1 Wall. 456 , 470.”
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.