Warthan v. Haynes’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently May 1997 · most notably Hilley v. Hilley (1961), Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. The Chase Manhattan Bank, Successor of the Chase National Bank of the City of New York, Trustee and Alleged Transferee of Marie Elizabeth Moran, the Chase Manhattan Bank, Sucessor of the Chase National Bank of the City of New York, Trustee and Alleged Transferee of Marie Elizabeth Moran v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (1958)
21 federal appellate · 18 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 2056
Relies on Lang v. Commissioner · 26 Cal. 2d 173 - Grimm v. Grimm · Martin v. McAllister · Lee v. Lee · 60 Cal. App. 602 - New York Life Insurance v. Bank of Italy
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.
““The complexities attendant upon dealing with life insurance proceeds and in the attempt to make them conform to our community property law are quite apparent. The decisions among the community property jurisdictions are not altogether in harmony nor even in our own state for that matter. It seems preferable, however, to distribute the funds in compliance with the terms of the insurance contract, absent fraud,' than compound the difficulties by drawing fine distinctions.” Warthan v. Haynes, 155 Tex. 413 , 288 S.W.2d 481, at 484 (1956).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“... that the wife, the beneficiary in a policy insuring her husband, with the right reserved to the husband to change the beneficiary, has prior to the death of the insured no vested interest in the policy or in the proceeds of it, even though the policy is taken out during marriage and all premiums are paid out of community funds.... Id. at 483 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“means the contract between insurer and insured. Both the promise of the insurer to pay the cash surrender value and the promise to pay the insurance itself are obligations of the policy. To say that the matured”
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.