Heifner v. Soderstrom’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1990
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Lynch v. United States · Wissner v. Wissner · White v. United States · Mitchell v. United States · Schlaefer v. Schlaefer
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) The insured shall have the right to designate the beneficiary or beneficiaries of insurance maturing on or after August 1, 1946, and shall, subject to regulations, at all times have the right to change the beneficiary or beneficiaries of such insurance without the consent of such beneficiary or beneficiaries.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It seems clear that there is a clear and definite Congressional mandate that the insured in a National Service Life Insurance policy shall have the right ‘at all times’ to change the beneficiary of the policy and that such right may not be denied him by either a federal or a state court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It seems clear from the cases that no court can deny the insured in a National Service Life Insurance policy the right to change the beneficiary of it or designate some one other than the designated beneficiary to receive the proceeds thereof.””
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.