McCullough v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions

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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Considering what was said in United States v. Worley, 281 U. S. 339, 341 , 50 S. Ct. 291 , 74 L. Ed. 887 , [889], and in Singleton v. Cheek [ 284 U. S. 493 , 52 S. Ct. 257 , 76 L. Ed. 419 , 81 A. L. R. 923], supra, together with the language and evident purpose of the Act of 1924 as amended, we think it clear enough that installments which accrued in favor of the father and mother of Reid as beneficiaries during their lives became the property of their respective estates. Also that installments which accrued to the assured during his lifetime, and the commuted value of the installments payable subsequent to the mother’s death, became the property of his estate. “The court below erred in directing that the installments which accrued to the beneficiaries — father and mother — during their lives should be treated as parts of the estate of the insured.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Day v. Bradshaw