New York Life Insurance v. Newman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 federal appellate · 3 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “No person duly authorized to practice medicine or surgery shall be allowed to disclose any information which he may have acquired in attending any patient in his professional character, and which information was necessary to enable him to prescribe for such patient as a physician, or to do any act for him as a surgeon: * * *.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 116 F. Supp. 365 - Miller v. Pacific Mut. Life Ins. Co. · Ranger, Inc. v. Equitable Life Assur. Soc.

2. “But, where there is testimony that the illness, not disclosed by the application and for which medical aid was sought, was serious, the question of the seriousness becomes one of fact. Rhode v. Metropolitan Life-Insurance Co., 132 Mich. 503, 93 N.W. 1076.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Continental Assurance Co. v. Shaffer · Ranger, Inc. v. Equitable Life Assur. Soc.

3. ““The falsity of any statement in the application for any policy covered by this chapter shall not bar the right to recovery thereunder unless such false' statement was made with actual intent to deceive or unless it materially affected either the acceptance of the risk or the hazard assumed by the insurer. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Turner v. Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Ass'n