Van Perkins v. Lambert’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2003
12 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 American National Insurance Co. v. Tabor · Pioneer Mutual Compensation Corp. v. Diaz · Morrison v. City of Fort Worth · Miller v. Long-Bell Lumber Co. · Heirs of Hunt v. Heirs of Robinson
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It shall not be lawful for any person to act within this State, as agent or otherwise, in soliciting or receiving applications for insurance of any kind whatever, or in any manner to aid in the transaction of the business of any insurance company incorporated in this State, or out of it, without first procuring a certificate of authority from the Board.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““Whoever for direct or indirect compensation solicits insurance in behalf of any insurance company * * * without a certificate of authority to act as agent * * * for such company, * * * shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““No person shall be authorized to engage in business as the agent of any life insurance company, * * * until he shall have procured a license from the Board of Insurance Commissioners as herein provided, and no such company shall appoint any person to act as its agent or solicitor unless such person shall have first obtained a license under the provisions hereof, * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pharr v. Diegel
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.