State Mutual Life Assurance Company of Worcester, Massachusetts v. Sam Adams Dorsey, State Mutual Life Assurance Company of Worcester, Massachusetts v. The Citizens & Southern National Bank, of the Estate of David J. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
357 F.2d 600 · 1966
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 1994
12 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.
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Hvoslef · Leary v. United States · Massachusetts Benefit Life Ass'n v. Robinson · 106 Ga. App. 287 - Loftin v. United States Fire Insurance · Wolverine Insurance v. Jack Jordan, Inc.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We must apply the pertinent principles of law to these facts in determining the validity of the appeals. It is undisputed that Messrs. Robinson and Murphy met their deaths by reason of an accident and State Mutual asserts the exclusion in bar of recovery. The burden is on the insurer in such event to show that the deaths fall within the contract exclusion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We agree that the term was ambiguous. This being so, and if the ambiguous language can be construed in two ways, then the interpretation which is most favorable to the insured must be placed upon it.”
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.