Pace v. Pace’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 1955 · most notably Milam v. Davis (1929), 20 Wash. 2d 740 - Tucker v. Brown (1944)
5 federal appellate · 17 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To allow participation in the proceeds of the policy, by any person other than the children, husband or wife of the assured, the policy must in terms state that it was for some other person, creditor or creditors. The language of the policy may not, perhaps, be required to name individuals, but it must at least describe the person or persons, class, or classes, to take in such terms as show affirmatively that the beneficiaries of a general policy are not the children, husband or wife of the assured. There can be no exclusion of these parties unless the purpose to exclude them is manifest and without doubt, and the purpose must appear as we have stated.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““That whenever any person shall die in this state, leaving insurance upon his or her life, the said insurance shall inure exclusively to the benefit of his or her child or children, husband or wife, in equal portions, or to any other person or persons for whose use and benefit said insurance is declared in the policy; and the proceeds thereof shall in no case be liable to attachment, garnishment, or any legal process by any creditor or creditors of the person whose life was so insured, unless said policy declares that said insurance was effected for the benefit of such creditor or creditors.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ The sureties upon the bond of an administrator who has collected moneys, neither assets of the estate, nor subject to distribution by him, and to which as the legal representative of the decedent he was not entitled, are not liable for any appropriation or use of the same by the administrator for his personal benefit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Murphy v. Dorsey
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.