Briggs v. McCullough’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2010
2 federal appellate · 16 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.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The term ‘life insurance’ is not alone applicable to an insurance for the full term of one’s life. On the contrary, it may be for a term of years, or until the assured shall arrive at a certain age. It is simply an undertaking on the part of the insurer that either at the death of the assured, whenever that event may occur, or on his death, if it shall happen within a specified term, or before attaining a certain age, as the case may be, there shall be paid a stipulated sum. In either form it is, strictly speaking, an insurance on the life of the party. . . . The fact that the company is to pay the agreed sum at the expiration of ten years, even though- McCullough shall not have died in the meantime, does not divest it of its' character of life insurance.” (See, also, Charter v. John Han cock Mut. Life Ins. Co., 127 Mass. 153 ; Bliss on Life Ins., § 6; May on Ins., §3446.)”
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.