Northwestern National Life Insurance Company v. Paul Riggs B’s Empirical Analysis
203 U.S. 243 · 1906
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 15 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 157 later decisions (29 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same (1925), Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization (1939)
29 federal appellate · 15 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
Relationships
Relies on Boyd v. United States · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Chicago Co v. City of Chicago · Smyth v. Ames · Barbier v. Connolly
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 157 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is the liberty of natural, not artificial persons.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““As '(he present statute is applicable alike to all life insurance companies doing business in Missouri, after its enactment, there is no reason for saying that It denies the equal protection of the laws.” 203 U. S. 255 , 27 Sup. Ct. 129 , 51 L. Ed. 168 .”
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.