Cammack v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1992 · most notably Young v. Godbe (1872), Police Jury v. Britton (1872)
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 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 Cammack v. Lewis
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Washington, D. C., September 15, 1868. “ This agreement witnesseth that I, the undersigned, for value received, do bind myself, and heirs, or legal representatives, to pay unto Maggie Lewis, wife of John E. Lewis, his heirs and assigns, the sum of one thousand dollars, in event of the said John E- Lewis’s death; the said amount being first realized by me from an insurance on his (the said Lewis’s) life, duly assigned to me, and held by me, otherwise this agreement to be held null and void. Number of the policy 2885, in the New Jersey Mutual Life Insurance Company. “C. Cammack, Jr.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cammack v. Lewis“Washington City, D. C., January 20th, 1869. “To the New Jersey Mutual Life Insurance Co. “Gentlemen: The claim of C. Cammack, Jr., of said city, secured by assignment of policy No: 2885, in your company, on the life of my late husband, John E. Lewis, is a just and legal claim, and it is my desire and direction that your company pay to said Cammack the proceeds thereof. “ Witness my hand and seal on the aforementioned date. “Mrs. J. E. Lewis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cammack v. Lewis“was that his life was insured by Mr. Cammack, in the New Jersey Mutual Life Insurance Company, for the sum of $3000, and that at any time that he was able to pay to the said Cammack the amount of premiums that the said Cammack should have paid on account of the policy, with interest on the same, and the amount he owed Cammack for clothing, that Cammack would restore the policy to him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cammack v. Lewis
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.