Brown v. Agin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 20 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) whether the insured intended to change the beneficiary and (2) whether [the insured] took affirmative action or otherwise did substantially all that he could do to demonstrate that intention without regard to whether he complied with the change-of-policy beneficiary provision in the policy.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gwin v. Gappa · Lemke v. Schwarz

2. “[s]uch provisions are for the protection of the insurer, and where, as here, the insurance company has deposited the proceeds of the policy to be paid in accordance with the order of the court, it has waived any defense it might have to the claim of either party.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lemke v. Schwarz · Will & Appointment of Estate of Kipke v. Kipka

3. “[W]e must be guided by the principle that, where an action is tried by the court without a jury, the findings of fact are entitled to the same weight as the verdict of a jury and will not be reversed on appeal unless they are manifestly and palpably contrary to the evidence. This is so even though the reviewing court might itself have come to a different conclusion if it had been the fact-finding body.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gwin v. Gappa