Ferguson v. Knight’s Empirical Analysis
264 F.2d 176 · 1959
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 1987
14 federal appellate · 2 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 Mitchell v. United States · McKewen v. McKewen · Gann v. Meek · Butler v. Butler · Cyrus v. United States
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The cases are also unanimous that a mere intent to change a beneficiary is not enough. Such an intent must be followed by some affirmative act on the part of the insured evidencing an exercise of the right to change the beneficiary. Where the courts differ is as to the degree of affirmative action necessary to effect a change. Literal compliance with the provisions of a policy is never necessary.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Flying in the face of the precise terms of the instrument and without any proof of the circumstances under which the form was asked for and signed, appellant's evidence amounted to no more than surmise, speculation, and conjecture * * *.”
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.