Wardle v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 1941
19 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
Relies on Russell v. Berry · Bangs v. . Gray · Tolford v. Church · Commonwealth v. Dorchester Mutual Fire 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The rights and obligations of the individual members are mutual, and each sustains a double relation to the corporation. As an assured he is entitled to be indemnified for his loss insured against by the corporation. As a member of the corporate body he, in consideration for this indemnity, agrees with the corporation, and with each member of the corporate body, to pay his just share or proportion of all losses, so that each member shall receive the same indemnity, and shall also pay his share of the expenses.””
1 later decision 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.