State v. Timmer’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 2005
5 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 Securities & Exchange Commission v. Variable Annuity Life Insurance · State v. Frink · State v. Miller · State v. Comes · Spellacy v. American Life Ins. Assn.
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.
““The members understand that the ... Association is not an Insurance Company, but rather a benevolent Association for helping fellow members in times of sickness and accident. As such the Association can not and does not guarantee any rates or benefits and the claimant member receives only what the members in the group donate. “... I understand and agree that the ... Association is not an INSURANCE COMPANY, AND THEY CANNOT GUARANTEE RATES OR BENEFITS.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ * * *. ‘More broadly, however, the term “insurance,” or “insurance contract,” or “insurance policy,” * * * denotes a contract by which one party, for a compensation called the “premium,” assumes particular risks of the other party and promises to pay to him or his nominee a certain or ascertainable sum of money on a specified contingency; * * ’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The corporation’s plan or contract is distinguished from insurance on the ground it does not agree to pay a sum of money upon the happening of a particular event ... but promises only to transmit to the claimant such sums as may be received from assessments levied upon members of claimants group.””
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.