Sternberg v. Levy’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 1958
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 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
Relies on Judson v. Walker · Wade v. Jones · State ex rel. Malin v. Merriam · Pullis v. Robison
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This contention is based upon the theory that it is not the duty of a brother to support Ms widowed sister and, her children; but, while it is not Ms duty, he has a right to do so, and, if he resides with them and provides lor them, lie is the head of a family and entitled lo the samo exemptions as if he had a wife living with Mm. » * “ But if a man is entitled to his salary and certain exemptions as the head of a family which his creditors cannot touch, and if he chooses to spend a part of Ms salary in premiums for life insurance for' the benefit of Ms family after he is gone, Ms creditors are not thereby defrauded, for he has withdrawn no part of his property which his creditors could touch. * * * Hence it is no fraud for a brother who is the head of a family, composed of himself and his sister and her children, to apply his wages or his exempt property to the procuring of insurance for her benefit; for Ms creditors cannot touch the wages or property and have no right to complain if he uses it thus providently and properly instead of wasting it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Opava““What is said in the plaintiff’s interplea as to the amount contributed by Joseph Levy to his sister being $5,500 in excess of what he could have procured similar board for elsewhere is of no consequence. The laws of our country give no court power to determine how much a man may spend for board, nor to inquire whether he paid too much or too little therefor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Opava“A motion for judgment on the pleadings is not a demurrer. It partakes of some of the qualities of a demurrer but it is not a demurrer, and hence it is not a part of the record. It is a matter of exception and can only be made a part of the record by a bill of exceptions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.