Hughes v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2001
6 federal appellate ·
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.
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.
“[w]here essential medical facts are fairly disclosed by the applicant to the insurer's agent, and the latter by unilateral mistake or design inserts erroneous or misleading answers in the application, the insurer will be taken as having received such disclosed information and will stand, fully estopped at our bar, from asserting that the erroneous or misleading answer or answers constitute fraud.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any person who shall solicit an application for insurance upon the life of another shall, in any controversy between the insured or his beneficiary and the insurer issuing any policy upon such application, be regarded as the agent of the insurer and not the agent of the insured.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.