Ellison v. Straw’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 1995
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 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.
Relationships
Relies on Uhlman v. . New York Life Ins. Co. · Miller v. . Campbell · Shakman v. United States Credit System Co. · Ellison v. Straw · Yates v. French
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Life insurance is a promise to pay a certain sum upon the death of the assured.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“■ “Pure life insurance has become rare, except with beneficial associations.””
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.