In re Hettling’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 6 district ·

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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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The policy has no cash surrender value, but the insured is given the power to change the beneficiary at any time. If he survive his wife the policy is payable, not to her, but to his estate; and, if he live beyond the term of 20 years, he is given several options, some of which are: To receive any accumulated dividends in cash or the entire cash value of the property, or to receive the entire cash value converted into an annual income for life. These are property rights, as pointed out in our decision in' Re White (handed down' herewith) 174 Fed. 333 ( 98 C. C. A. 205 , 26 L. R. A. [N. S.] 451), that pass to the trustee under section 70a (5) of the Bankruptcy Act (Act July 1, 1898, c. 541, 30 Stat. 565 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3451]).””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Draper

2. ““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 passage
   e.g. In re Draper