Stone v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
272 F.2d 746 · 1959
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2012
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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
Applies 38 U.S.C. § 701
Relies on Mitchell v. United States · Merchants' Nat. Bank of Mobile v. Hubbard · O'Brien v. Elder · McKewen v. McKewen · Gann v. Meek
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * This Court reversed, not on the ground that the agreement effected a change of beneficiary but on the ground that the settlement agreement operated as a relinquishment of the divorced wife’s rights under the insurance contracts, although in Florida the law is plain that such rights must be characterized only as an expectancy. * * * ” ( 272 F.2d, 750 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Flowers v. Flowers““ * * * Perhaps a jury, on the same record, might decide exactly as the trial judge decided. We believe, however, that it is in the interest of justice that this case be decided by a jury after a full trial rather than by the district judge on a motion for summary judgment. “The judgment is reversed and remanded.” ( 272 F.2d, 751 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Flowers v. Flowers“in war-risk insurance cases involving change of beneficiary the courts will brush aside all legal technicalities in order to effectuate the manifest intent of the insured.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.