Berg v. Damkoehler’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2001
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Ballou v. Gile · Patterson v. Natural Premium Mutual Life Insurance · McGowan v. Supreme Court of the Independent Order of Foresters · Foster v. Gile · Kerman v. Howard
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Other exceptions are where the company has waived strict compliance with the rules; where it is beyond the power of the insured to comply with all the rules, and he has done all that is possible to secure the change; and also when,he has pursued the rules, and done all in his power to change the beneficiary, but dies before the new policy is issued.””
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.