Baldwin v. Begley’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1925 · most notably Modern Woodmen of America v. Mixer (1925), Murphy v. Nowak (1906)
37 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedBaldwin v. Begley
Relationships
Relies on Fullenwider v. Supreme Council of Royal League · Alexander v. Parker · Voigt v. Kersten · Palmer v. Welch · Supreme Lodge Knights of Pythias v. Kutscher
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Upon the death of a member, where the person claiming to be his designated beneficiary is outside of the classes eligible as beneficiaries of his insurance, the member’s heirs at law who are within such classes are entitled to the insurance. There being no selection of a beneficiary authorized to take, the fund goes to them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Taylor v. Hair
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.