Farra v. Braman’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently November 2009 · most notably Indiana National Life Insurance v. McGinnis (1913), Indiana Life Endowment Co. v. Reed (1913)
41 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 Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. Schaefer · Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias v. Knight · Tyler v. Odd Fellows' Mutual Relief Ass'n · Jory v. Supreme Council American Legion of Honor · Holland v. Taylor
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It may be conceded that by the divorce in question the relation of husband and wife was terminated, and the wife was no longer a relative or dependent of her former husband, and in the event of his death could not in any sense be regarded as his heir; but it does not follow that from the mere fact of the divorce alone she was thereby disqualified as a beneficiary and deprived of the benefits provided for by the insurance certificate. Of course, the relief department might have provided, either in the contract of insurance or in its by-laws, rules and regulations, that in the event the wife of the insured, whom he had designated as his beneficiary, should be divorced from him, such divorce should terminate her rights as a beneficiary and deprive her of the death benefits. This, however, was not done, for we discover no provision to that effect, either in the application, certificate, by-laws or regulations of the department.” “. . . The fact, that the conjugal relations existing between her and her former husband at the time she was designated as his beneficiary had been thereafter severed by a divorce, prior to the maturity of the policy, did not, under the governing rules, by-laws and regulations of the relief department, render her ineligible as such beneficiary, bar or deprive her of the right to receive the insurance money' paid into court by the relief department upon the certificate of insurance.””
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.