Griffin v. McCoach’s Empirical Analysis
123 F.2d 550 · 1941
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2004
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Bank of Augusta v. Earle · Griffin v. McCoach · Cheeves v. Anders, Administrator · Union Trust Co. v. Grosman · Bond v. Hume
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is against the public policy of the State of Texas to allow anyone who has no insurable interest to be the owner of a policy of insurance upon the life of a human being.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mayo
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.