Collins v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
161 F.2d 64 · 1947
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently September 1999 · most notably Mitchell v. United States (1948), Gann v. Meek (1948)
27 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 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 Bergholm v. Peoria Life Ins. · Mutual Life Insurance v. Hurni Packing Co. · Stroehmann v. Mutual Life Insurance · Bradley v. United States · Roberts v. United States
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The controlling section of the Act provides that the insured ‘shall have the right to designate the beneficiary or beneficiaries of the insurance * * * and shall * * at all times have the right to change the beneficiary or beneficiaries * * *’ 38 U.S.C. § 802 (g), 38 U.S. C.A. § 802(g). Thus Congress has spoken with force and clarity in directing that the proceeds belong to the named beneficiary and no other.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Here we have more than the expressed intent of the insured to change the beneficiary. We have positive and affirmative action on his part. * * * Nothing remained for him to do in order to authorize the insurance company to make the change as soon as the notice came to its attention.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“positive action on the part of the insured evidencing an exercise of the right to change the beneficiary.”
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.