Rollins v. McHatton’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 1937
23 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Hellenberg v. District Number One of the Independent Order of Berith · Holland v. Taylor · Daniels v. Pratt · Coleman v. Supreme Lodge, Knights of Honor · Eastman v. Provident Mutual Relief Ass'n
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would be a dangerous precedent were we to hold that the designation of the change of beneficiary by entry upon the books of the company is not imperative. Disregard of the prescribed mode of substitution would tend to frustrate the wise and benevolent object to which these societies owe their existence.” (Page 207.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pilcher v. Puckett““If the assured has done his part towards perfecting the substitution in accordance with the method prescribed, but owing to circumstances over which he has no control the change is not entirely consummated at the time of his death, equity will sometimes treat the substitution as complete.””
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.