Whitman v. Whitman’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 1994 · most notably Norton v. Norton (1966), Taylor v. Southern Bank & Trust Co. (1933)
22 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 McDonald v. McDonald · Missouri State Life Ins. Co. v. Robertson Banking Co.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]he method of changing the beneficiary as per the terms and method prescribed by the policy is not the exclusive method of doing so as between the insured and the beneficiaries, and a failure to do so in strict compliance with the policy may be waived by the company. It follows that it was not essential to a valid change of the beneficiary, in the case at bar, to set out that the beneficiary was changed as per the terms of the policy...."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“could be effected by parol or written instrument manifesting insured's intent to change the beneficiary.”
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.