Insurance Company v. Chase’s Empirical Analysis
72 U.S. 509 · 1866
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 7 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2015 · most notably Harrison v. Fortlage (1896), Hooper v. Robinson (1878)
23 federal appellate · 7 district · 22 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
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The courts of this country, as well as England, are well disposed to maintain policies where it is clear that the parly assured had an interest which would be injured in the event that the peril insured against should happen.””
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.