Voigt v. Kersten’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 1983 · most notably 97 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Davis (1983), Baldwin v. Begley (1900)
2 federal appellate · 36 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedKersten v. Voigt
Relationships
Relies on Martin v. Stubbings · Gilmore v. Courtney · Benton v. Brotherhood of Railroad Brakemen · Kersten v. Voigt
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“: ‘At the time the contract was made between the deceased and the complainant order, this right to appoint the beneficiary or change the name existed, and, we think, was an important part of the contract entered into. It would seem that the construction of the act passed in June, 1893, giving”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ Payment of death benefits shall only be made to the families, heirs, blood relations, affianced husband or affianced wife of, or to persons dependent upon the member.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nelson v. Gibson
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.