Cohn v. Malone’s Empirical Analysis
248 U.S. 450 · 1919
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 27 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1970 · most notably National Shawmut Bank v. Joy (1944), In re Messinger (1928)
30 federal appellate · 27 district · 10 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMalone v. Cohn (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Cohen v. Samuels · Malone v. Cohn
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tbe assured may direct tbe money to be paid to bis personal representative, or to bis widow, or to bis children, sor to bis assignee; and upon sucb direction given, and assented to by tbe insurer, no other person can defeat tbe same. But tbe assignment is good without sucb assent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Aberle v. McQuaid
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.