Fogel v. Bangs’s Empirical Analysis
164 F.2d 214 · 1947
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2011
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 11 U.S.C. § 110
Relies on Daniel Holden v. J a Stratton · Kenin's Trust Estate (No. 1) · Jaster v. Currie · Blinn v. Dame · In re Weick
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * All policies of life insurance upon the life of any person, which may hereafter mature, and which have been or shall be taken out for the benefit of, or bona fide assigned to the wife or children, or any relative dependent upon such persons, or any creditor, shall be held, subject to change of beneficiary from time to time, if desired, for the benefit of such wife or children, or other relative, or creditor, free and clear from all claims of the creditors of such insured person; and the proceeds or avails of all such life insurance shall be exempt from all liabilities from any debt or debts of such insured person.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Summers““Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana, That the proceeds or avails of all life, including fraternal and co-operative, health and accident insurance shall be exempt from all liability for any debt, except for a debt secured by a pledge of such policy, or any rights under such policy that may have been assigned; or any advance payments made on or against such policy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In construing an exemption provision, it is pertinent to keep in mind the well established rule that such a provision should be interpreted liberally in favor of those for whose benefit it is enacted.””
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.