Walzer v. Walzer’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 1986
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 Aron v. Gillman · Loco. Engr. Mut. L. Acc. Ins. v. Locke · Chamberlin v. First Trust & Deposit Co. · In re the Accounting of Landau · In re the Accounting of Lincoln Rochester Trust Co.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is clear that if a policy of life insurance is assigned as collateral for a debt without changing the beneficiary, then the primary obligation for the debt is that of the.estate of the insured, and, in the event the creditor collects out of the policy, subrogation results and a right to collect from..the estate descends to the beneficiary.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rountree v. Frazee
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.