Dyke v. Dyke’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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

1. ““A life insurance policy in which the right to name or change the beneficiary is reserved to the insured is a contract in which the insurer agrees to pay the death benefit to the beneficiary designated by the insured. If a state, * * * could restrict that agreement to pay, the effect would be a determination by the state of who should receive the benefit. In the case of National Service Life Insurance that power, existing in the state, would supersede the federal power. That result is rejected. Hilbert v. United States, D.C.Ill., 43 F.Supp. 838 ; Murray v. United States, D.C.E.D. Mich.N.D., 107 F.Supp. 290 ; Barton v. United States, D.C., 75 F. Supp. 703 ; Taylor v. United States, D.C.Ark., 113 F.Supp. 143 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Heifner v. Soderstrom

2. ““Policies of National Service Life Insurance are, of course, contracts of the United States and possess the same legal incidents as other gov-erment contracts. * * * The validity and construction of such policies present questions of federal .law.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Heifner v. Soderstrom