Adams v. MacY’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2006
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 8705
Relies on Stribling v. United States · Sears v. Austin · 298 F. Supp. 158 - Pekonen v. Edgington
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]o the beneficiary ... designated by the employee in a signed and witnessed writing received before death in the employing office or :.. in the Office of Personnel Management. For this purpose, a designation, change, or cancellation of beneficiary in a will or other document not so executed and filed has no force or effect.””
2 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.