Pagel v. MacLean’s Empirical Analysis
283 U.S. 266 · 1931
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1981
3 federal appellate · 8 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 Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Dennis · State of Missouri Wabash Ry Co v. Public Service Commission of Missouri · Kimball v. Kimball · Burnet v. Henry · In Re Estate of Hallbom
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By reason of her decease, the question whether the mother alone of the permitted class is entitled to receive the proceeds of the insurance, in preference to the creditors of the insured, presented by the record and decided by the state court, has now become subsidiary to other questions, the determination of which is necessary to the disposition of the present suit and may render unnecessary any adjudication of the rights of the mother. Assuming, as the state court held, that the mother was entitled to the insurance in her lifetime, it does not follow that respondent, by virtue of his office as administrator, or claiming in the mother’s right, is entitled to payment of the insurance under the, judgment in her favor. That depends on the interpretation of § 300, directing that the insurance 'shall be payable only’ to members of the permitted class, and on the question whether, under the provisions of the act and of the certificate, the insurance should now go to the estate of the mother, to the creditors of the insured, or to the surviving brothers and sisters, if any, none of whom is a party to this suit. That question was not decided by the state court, for the review of whose judgment certiorari was granted, and is not one which can be disposed of on this record.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pagel v. MacLean“in order that the state court may be free to deal adequately with the questions which must be determined in order to make appropriate distribution of the fund involved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The . . . insurance . . . shall not be subject to the claims of creditors of any person to whom an award is made”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pagel v. Pagel
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.