Baley v. . Homestead Fire Ins. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1963 · most notably Healey v. Mutual Accident Ass'n of the Northwest (1890), 3 E.H. Smith 382 - Wood v. . American Fire Ins. Co. (1896)
28 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a clause in a contract is capable of two constructions, one of which will support, and the other defeat, the principal obligation, the former will be preferred, forfeitures are not favored, and the party claiming a forfeiture will not be permitted, upon equivocal or doubtful clauses or words contained in his own contract, to deprive the other party of the benefit of the right or indemnity for which he contracted.””
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.