Delaney v. Delaney’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently April 1982 · most notably Supreme Council of Royal Arcanum v. Behrend (1918), Freund v. Freund (1905)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 66 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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
reviewedDelaney v. Delaney
Relationships
Relies on Martin v. Stubbings · Bloomington Mutual Benefit Ass'n v. Blue · Splawn v. Chew · Masonic Benevolent Ass'n v. Bunch · Isgrigg v. Schooley
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although the rule is settled that change of beneficiary must be made in the manner prescribed in the laws of the society, with some exceptions it is also now equally well settled that the society may waive compliance with the required formalities.” 1 Bacon’s Life & Acc. Ins. (4th Ed.) § 406.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The provision that a new certificate may be issued upon the surrender of the old certificate is a provision which is made for the benefit of the association.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.