Knickerbocker Life Ins Co v. Pendleton’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently January 1975 · most notably Arnold v. Empire Mutual Annuity & Life Insurance (1908), Hicks v. British America Assurance Co. (1900)
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 19 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 William Tayloe v. The Merchants' Fire Insurance Company of Baltimore · Brink v. . Hanover Fire Ins. Co. · Canter v. American & Ocean Insurance Co. of New York · State v. Bailey · Norwich & New York Transportation Co. v. Western Massachusetts Insurance
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The preliminary proof of loss or death required by a policy is intended for the security of the insurers in paying the amount insured. If they refuse to pay at all, and base their refusal upon some distinct ground without reference to the want or defect of the preliminary proof, the occasion for it ceases and it will be deemed to be waived. And this can work no prejudice to the insurers, for, in an action on the policy, the plaintiff would be obliged to prove the death of the person whose life was insured, whether the preliminary proofs were exhibited or not”
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.