Board of Assessors of the Parish of Orleans v. New York Life Insurance Company’s Empirical Analysis
216 U.S. 517 · 1910
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 10 district · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 175 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2005 · most notably Miller Bros. v. Maryland (1954), Williams v. Union Central Life Insurance (1934)
55 federal appellate · 10 district · 65 state decisions — followed in 19 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 M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Paul v. Virginia · Allgeyer v. State of Louisiana · Hooper v. People of State of California · Union Refrigerator Transit Company v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
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 175 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The so-called liability of the policy holder never exists as a personal liability, it never is a debt, but is merely a deduction in account from the sum that the * * * [insurer] ultimately must pay. * * * In substance it is extinct from the beginning, because * * * it is a payment, not a loan.”
6 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.