General American Life Insurance v. Yarbrough’s Empirical Analysis
360 F.2d 562 · 1966
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 2017
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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.
Relationships
Relies on Pfeiffer v. Missouri State Life Insurance · Hope Spoke Co. v. Maryland Casualty Co. · Missouri State Life Insurance v. Foster · Smith v. Mutual Life Ins. Co. of New York · New York Life Insurance Co. v. Moose
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 defendant never denied the existence of contractual relations with plaintiff and never indicated any intent not to abide by the provisions of the policy. Defendant only denied plaintiff had made proof of the claimed disability within the time and in the manner provided by the policy. Such action by defendant is not repudiation of the policies so as to result in an anticipatory breach of their provisions, and plaintiff is not entitled to the present value of the future installments of disability payments.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As a condition precedent to any liability of the Company on account of the total and permanent disability of any employee, written proof . . . must be furnished to the company at its Home Office in St. Louis, Missouri, within twelve months after the termination of such employee’s insurance. (Emphasis added.)”
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.