Mobley v. New York Life Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
295 U.S. 632 · 1935
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 19 district · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 179 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2020 · most notably New York Life Ins Co v. Viglas (1936), Rabouin v. National Labor Relations Board (1952)
41 federal appellate · 19 district · 78 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMobley v. New York Life Ins. (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Roehm v. Horst · Dingley v. Oler · Smoot's Case · Kimel v. Missouri State Life Ins.
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 179 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Mere refusal, upon mistake or misunderstanding as to matters of fact or upon an erroneous construction of the disability clause, to pay a monthly benefit when due is sufficient to constitute a breach of that provision, but it does not amount to a renunciation or repudiation of the policy.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`unqualified refusal, or declaration of inability, substantially to perform according to the terms of [an] obligation,'”
4 later decisions 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.