Durst v. Durst’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]here can be no doubt that a beneficiary in a life insurance policy has no such interest in it, or control over it, as entitles [the beneficiary] to say what shall be done with it, or control the change.in beneficiaries, or other dealings during the lifetime of the holder of the policy. It is only after the death of the holder that such interests or rights attach to the proceeds.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 131 Md. App. 302 - East v. PaineWebber, Inc.

2. “[w]e have uniformly held that where the right by the insured to change the beneficiary named in a life insurance policy is reserved, the beneficiary has no vested or indefeasible interest under the policy during the lifetime of the insured's death, but only a revocable expectancy contingent upon being the beneficiary at the time of the insured's death.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United Bank v. Buckingham