Thomson v. Thomson’s Empirical Analysis
156 F.2d 581 · 1946
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Pasquel v. Owen (1950), O'Brien v. Elder (1957)
28 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 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 Old Colony Trust Company v. City of Omaha · 55 Cal. App. 344 - Shoudy v. Shoudy · 9 Cal. App. 2d 528 - Mutual Life Insurance of New York v. Franck · Fendler v. Roy · Chapman v. McIlwrath
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Equities may be established in the first instance by a contract with the insured, particularly where the claimant’s part has been fully performed. If sufficient consideration appears to support the insured’s promise to make the claimant the beneficiary or not to change the designation so as to deprive the named beneficiary of his interest therein, the claimant takes a vested interest in the proceeds. And this is true regardless of the fact that the policy gives the insured the right to change the designation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[N]o mention was made of the insurance until after the [settlement] contract was signed, nor was any mention made of it in the [divorce] decree.”
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.