Connecticut Mut Life Ins Co of Hartford v. Akens’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2016
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Connecticut Mut Life Ins Co v. Lathrop · Travellers' Ins Co v. McConkey · Life Insurance v. Terry · Bigelow v. Berkshire Life Insurance · Insurance Company v. Rodel
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The clause contains no such significant and decisive words as ‘die by suicide, sane or insane,’ as in Bigelow v. Insurance Co., or by ‘suicide (felonious or otherwise, sane or insane),’ as in Insurance Co. v. McConkey.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The word ‘disease,’ unrestricted by anything in the context, includes .disease of the mind as well as disease of the body.””
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.