Chartrand v. Chartrand’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 2013
3 federal appellate · 18 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 Goldman v. Moses · Atlantic Mutual Life Insurance v. Gannon · Tartakin v. Stitt
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he insured had all rights under the policy as it was issued.... No third person had any interest in this policy. It was payable to the estate of the insured .... Under such a policy all rights normally held by a beneficiary belonged to the insured.... The insured and his own estate during his life do not constitute two separate and distinct entities: they are a single unit of ownership.”
2 later decisions 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.