Baumet v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1996 · most notably United States v. Henning (1952), United States v. Short (1956)
18 federal appellate · 9 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedBaumet v. United States (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on On Lee v. United States · Martinez v. Neelly · United States v. Henning · Robinson v. United States
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For the reasons detailed in United States v. Henning, supra, we hold that estates of deceased beneficiaries may not take proceeds under the Act.” Baumet v. United States, 344 U.S. 82, 83 , 73 S.Ct. 122, 124 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that . . . (the father) long before his son's death had abandoned his son and ceased to be a parent in truth and fact. He may not now retrieve the discarded parental robe to lay claim to the policy proceeds”
1 later decision 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.