Wolfe v. Mid-Continent Corp.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “* * * [T]he primary purpose of the act was to enable a man to provide a fund for his wife and children, exempt from his creditors’ claims, for their benefit after his death, that is, his wife and children, and the creditors have no concern in the details of the distribution among the wife and children of the funds derived from his life insurance unless by apt words a clear intention is disclosed on the part of the insured to subject his life insurance to the payment of debts and expenses of the estate.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Federal Insurance v. Quint

2. ““The fact of insolvency cannot be looked to; for the exemption is unconditional, and its express object was to withdraw a fund from creditors.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 63 Tenn. App. 1 - Frazier v. Frazier