In re White’s Empirical Analysis
174 F. 333 · 1909
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 1934
6 federal appellate · 7 district ·
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 Whitehead v. . New York Life Ins. Co. · Hiscock v. Mertens · Brick v. . Campbell · In re Coleman · In re Mertens
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.
““A policy of insurance on the life of a bankrupt, payable to his wife if she survives him, otherwise to his estate or any designated beneficiary, and which, while having no cash surrender value, gives him the right to change the beneficiary at any time and the privilege of several options if he lives beyond a stated term, among which are to receive its then value’ in cash or paid-up insurance, is property of the bankrupt which passes to his trustee.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Draper““It is quite plain that the policies referred to are such as are the absolute property of a married woman or her children.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Pittman
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.