Dannhauser v. . Wallenstein’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1961
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 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
reviewedDannhauser v. Wallenstein
Relationships
Relies on Eadie v. . Slimmon · Barry v. . Equitable Life Assurance Society · McDonnell v. Alabama Gold Life Insurance · Griswold v. . Sawyer · Bomeisler v. . Forster
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ It was simply a continuation of the original contract under the option which gave the holder thereof the right, after two or more annual premiums had been paid, to cease paying the annual premiums and take a paid-up policy in exchange for the first one. It was a change in the mere form of the contract expressly provided for by its own terms. It is true that the first policy, the original evidence of the contract between the insured and the com pany, was * surrendered to the company and canceled ’ when the paid-up policy was issued, but this was simply a part of, and in compliance with, the terms of the original contract. The contract was continued as it provided that it might be, in the form of ,a paid-up policy, such as was accepted by the defendant. It was not a modification, but a fulfillment of the original contract.””
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.