Farrell v. Security Mut. Life Ins.’s Empirical Analysis
125 F. 684 · 1903
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently July 1978
3 federal appellate ·
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 Mutual Benefit Life Insurance v. Wise · Brady v. United Life Ins.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Inmate' is defined as follows: 'One who lives in the same house or apartment with another; a fellow lodger; esp. one of the occupants of an asylum, hospital, or prison; by extension, one who occupies or lodges in any place or dwelling.' Webster. 'One who is a mate or associate in the occupancy of a place; hence, an indweller; an associated lodger or inhabitant; as the inmate of a dwelling house, factory, hospital, or prison.' Century. There is nothing to show that the word 'inmate' was used or understood in said application in any sense other than its ordinary sense as thus defined. The presumption therefore is against any different or technical use.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“ever been an inmate at any Infirmary, Sanitarium, Institution, Assylum or Hospital?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.