Traders' Insurance v. Robert’s Empirical Analysis
1832
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 1931 · most notably Hathaway v. Orient Insurance (1892), Commercial Fire Insurance v. Capital City Insurance (1886)
25 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Had the nominal plaintiff, in this case, executed a release to the insurance company, it would have had no effect upon the rights of the assignee; and if he could not directly discharge the right of action which he had assigned, surely he cannot do it indirectly.””
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.