Gann v. Meek’s Empirical Analysis
165 F.2d 857 · 1948
Citation profile
34 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently September 1970 · most notably Butler v. Butler (1949), Moths v. United States (1950)
34 federal appellate ·
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 Mutual Life Ins Co of New York v. Hillmon · In re the Estate of Jessup · Bradley v. United States · McElroy v. Phink, Administrator · Mitchell 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ F.ll. p. 7364, Sec. 10.3446-3447 provides; < * * * A change of beneficiary to be effective must be made by notice in writing signed by the insured and forwarded to the Veterans Administration by the insured or his agent and must contain sufficient information to identify the insured * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“I did change my insurance if anyone gets it Mom will get it all * * *.”
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.