Rust Tractor Co. v. Consolidated Constructors, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2001
7 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 Tipton v. Clower · Terrien v. Pawtucket Mutual Fire Insurance · Miller v. Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. · Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance Co. of Iowa v. Stansbury · Sackett v. Farmers Insurance Exchange
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even assuming mechanical breakdown was a cause of the loss, the exclusion still does not apply. Where a risk insured against operates to subject the insured property to a risk not insured against, the loss is covered. In this case the negligent failure to maintain oil level is an ‘external cause’ and is insured against. That negligent failure operated to subject the loader to mechanical breakdown which was excluded. The loss was covered.”
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.