Summers v. Summers’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently November 1982 · most notably West End Sav. Bank v. Goodwin (1931), Williams v. Williams (1963)
2 federal appellate · 41 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 Supreme Council of Royal Arcanum v. Behrend · McDonald v. McDonald · McDonald v. McDonald · Sovereign Camp, W. O. W. v. Allen · Slaughter v. Grand Lodge
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"As to the contention that complainant was defrauded by a false affidavit by means of which the insured effected the substitution of another beneficiary and secured the issuance of a new policy, as observed by Mr. Justice Sayre in McDonald v. McDonald, 212 Ala. 137, 141 , 102 So. 38 , 36 A.L.R. 761 , if complainant had no vested interest in the policy, she could not have been defrauded, and, if she had such an interest, the alleged fraud could not have affected it; hence the imposition, if any, was upon the association alone, and, if the association waives it, no one else can complain. It was so declared in Slaughter v. Grand Lodge, etc., 192 Ala. 301, 305 , 68 So. 367 . See, also, to the same effect, Hoeft v. Supreme Lodge, etc., 113 Cal. 91 , 45 P. 185 , 33 L.R.A. 174 ; 4 Cooley's Briefs on Insurance, 372. The allegation of fraud in this behalf does not aid the bill."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.