Springfield Mutual Association v. Atnip’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 1994 · most notably Dodds v. Hanover Insurance (1994), Mutual Relief Association v. Ray (1927)
5 federal appellate · 18 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 Warnock v. Davis · Sovereign Camp Woodmen of the World v. Newsom · Mutual Aid Union v. Blacknall · United Order of Good Samaritans v. Meekins · Home Mutual Benefit Ass'n v. Rowland
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not pretended that the appellant is not doing a life insurance business in this State. Its only contention is that it is doing an insurance business on the assessment plan. But that does not make it any the less a life insurance association doing a life insurance business in this State. The contracts it issues are life insurance contracts, and such companies come within the purview of the statute applying to all insurance companies unless they are expressly exempted by the later statute, as shown by the decisions supra. See also Sovereign Camp W. O. W. v. Newsom, 142 Ark. 132 , where we held in effect that insurance certificates issued by benefit societies to their members must be regarded the same as any other ordinary policy or contract of insurance, so far as relates to the construction and enforcement of such contracts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.