Alexander v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently January 1941 · most notably Murphy v. Nowak (1906), Norwegian Old People's Home Society v. Wilson (1898)
45 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Supreme Council American Legion of Honor v. Perry · McCarthy v. Supreme Lodge New England Order of Protection · Ballou v. Gile · Palmer v. Welch · 46 N.J. Eq. 102 - Britton v. Supreme Council of the Royal Arcanum
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Neither the act of a member in naming a person who is not within the classes to be benefited, nor the act of the corporation in making the certificate which it issues payable to such person, can deprive the beneficiaries designated by law of their right to, or interest in, the fund.””
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.