Beck v. Downey’s Empirical Analysis
198 F.2d 626 · 1952
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2004
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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.
Relationships
Relies on New York Mutual Life Insurance v. Armstrong · Anderson v. Jordan · 38 Cal. 2d 643 - Beck v. West Coast Life Insurance · Bullock v. Expressmen's Mutual Life Insurance · 85 W. Va. 70 - Johnston v. Metropolitan Life Ins.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f judicial policy dictates that [the murderer] cannot take directly, no technical consistency should permit him to benefit indirectly by a gift to his family, especially a mother, from whom he would normally acquire property by the statutes of descent and distribution.”
2 later decisions 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.