Scott v. Hoage’s Empirical Analysis
73 F.2d 114 · 1934
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2006
10 federal appellate · 9 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
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 901 · 33 U.S.C. § 912 · 33 U.S.C. § 920 · 33 U.S.C. § 936
Relies on Matter of Giliotti v. Hoffman Catering Co. · Holt Lumber Co. v. Industrial Commission
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is probable that the mistake in numbers was the result of clerical error only. Nevertheless we think that misdescription of the policy number in the notice [of cancellation] vitiates it. The duty rests upon the company to send a correct notice, and inasmuch as it failed to do so in this case, it did not accomplish the purpose for which it was sent.””
2 later decisions 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.