Commonwealth v. Beisel’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate · 30 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “... The purchaser of an annuity surrenders all right and title in and to the money he pays for it. On the other hand, where a debtor agrees to pay his creditor in installments at regular intervals, the debt or principal sum itself is due to the creditor although payable only in the manner agreed upon; it is an account receivable in which he has a property interest. Therefore, installment payment of a debt, or payments of interest on a debt, do not constitute an annuity.”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Matter of Young · In Re Lynch

2. “But the difference between the hypothetical and the actual ease is that, in the former, defendant transfers her interest in and to the funds as consideration for the periodic payments which she is purchasing, whereas, in the latter, she retains ownership of, and interest in, the principal of the debt which is due to her, just as if she had left the money with the companies on deposit, and she merely agrees to accept payment thereof in installments. The form of the transaction is of vital importance in determining whether its intention is to pass title to the fund or obligation from which the payments emerge.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Orso

3. ““To constitute an ‘annuity’ it is not necessary that the payments be annual.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Geary's Estate