Marguerite T. Tobin and Kathryn M. Tobin, an Incompetent, by Marguerite T. Tobin, Her Next Friend v. United States Railroad Retirement Board’s Empirical Analysis
286 F.2d 480 · 1961
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2001
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Fidelity Mutual Life Ass'n v. Mettler · Davie v. Briggs · Adams v. Flemming · 124 F. Supp. 489 - Norment v. Hobby
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.
“While in Davie v. Briggs, supra, and two cases there cited (Spencer v. Moore, 11 Ired. 160 , 33 N.C. 160 ; Spencer v. Roper, 13 Ired. 333 , 35 N.C. 333 ), it is stated that no presumption arises as to the time of death, they leave the inference that it must be at the end of seven years, since evidence is required to establish that death occurred earlier than that. The trend of the American cases, both federal and state, is toward the conclusion that, if there is no evidence to show that death occurred earlier, it is presumed not to have occurred until the end of the seven years. Tobin v. United States R.R. Retirement Bd., supra, 286 F.2d at 483 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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