Manhattan Life Ins Co v. Broughton’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2015 · most notably Daniels v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad (1903), Gardner v. Michigan Cent R Co
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 Burgess v. Seligman · Railroad Company v. Lockwood · Williams v. Nottawa · Michigan Cent Co v. Myrick · Life Insurance v. Terry
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the rule so established is sounder in principle, as- well as simpler in application, than that which makes the effect of the act of self-destruction, upon the interests of those for whose benefit the policy was made, to depend upon the very subtle-and difficult question how far any exercise of-.the will can be attributed to a man who is so unsound of mind that, while he foresees- the physical consequences which will directly result from his act, he cannot understand its moral nature and character, or in any just sense be said to know what it is that he is doing.”
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.