Addiss v. Selig’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently January 2009 · most notably Caminetti v. Pac. Mut. Life Ins. Co. of Cal. (1943), Feiber Realty Corp. v. Abel (1934)
8 federal appellate · 29 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 Edwards v. Kearzey · Combes v. Getz · Gunn v. Barry · Bank of Minden v. Clement · United States Mortgage & Trust Co. v. Ruggles
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Eights of creditors and beneficiaries under poficies of fife insurance. If a policy of insurance, whether heretofore or hereafter issued, is effected by any person on his own fife or on another fife, in favor of a person other than himself, or, except in cases of transfer with intent to defraud creditors, if a policy of fife insurance is assigned or in any way made payable to any such person, the lawful beneficiary or assignee thereof, other than the insured or the person so effecting such insurance, or his executors or administrators, shall be entitled to its proceeds and avails against the creditors and representatives of the insured and of the person effecting the same, whether or not the right to change the beneficiary is reserved or permitted, and whether or not the policy is made payable to the person whose life is insured if the beneficiary or assignee shall predecease such person; * *”
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.