Mutual Life Ins Co of New York v. Armstrong’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 federal appellate · 5 district · 144 state decisions

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 190 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It would be a reproach to the jurisprudence of the country if one could recover insurance money payable on the death of the party whose life he had feloniously taken.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Equitable Life Assur. Soc. of the United States v. Weightman · United Presidential Life Insurance Co. v. Moss

2. ““The term ‘legal representatives’ is not necessarily restricted to the personal representatives of one deceased, but is sufficiently broad to cover all persons who, with respect to his property, stand in his place and represent his interests, whether transferred to them by his act or by operation of law.” New York Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. Armstrong, 117 U. S. 591 (6 Sup. Ct. 877).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Farmers & Merchants National Bank & Trust Co. v. Globe Indemnity Co.

3. ““A repetition of acts of the same character naturally indicates the same purpose in' all of them; and if when considered together they cannot be reasonably explained without ascribing a particular motive to -the perpetrator, such motive will be considered as prompting each act;””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Yakima Valley Bank v. McAllister