Mutual Fire Marine and Inland Insurance Company v. Costa IV Inland Brokerage Corporation Mutual Fire Marine and Inland Insurance Company’s Empirical Analysis
789 F.2d 83 · 1986
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Continental Casualty Co. v. Canadian Universal Insurance (1991), First Alabama Bank of Montgomery Na v. First State Insurance Company Inc (1990)
7 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 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 First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co. · Robert C. Hahn v. Francis W. Sargent · Prentice v. North American Title Guaranty Corp. · Williams v. Union Central Life Insurance · Danca v. Taunton Savings Bank
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is clear that the presence of a larger number of potential claimants on board a vessel at any one time increases the risk of loss to an insurer, regardless of the number of individuals who may ultimately suffer injuries.”
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.