O'Bryan v. England’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 1998
2 district · 16 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 McCullough's Adm'r v. Anderson · Herbert's Guardian v. Herbert's Ex'r · Vaughan's Admr. v. Modern Brotherhood of America · Buckler v. Supreme Council Catholic Knights of America · Neal's Admr. v. Shirley's Admr.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a policy of insurance is effected by any person on his own life or on another life in favor of some person other than himself, having an insurable interest therein, the lawful beneficiary thereof, other than himself or his legal rep resentatives, shall be entitled to its proceeds against the creditors and representatives of the person effecting the same.””
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.