Fair v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “to avoid the administrative difficulties and delay in disbursing benefits resulting from conflicting claims, under the group program, arising out of private, designating documents not in official possession at the time of death.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Bremer · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Bush

2. “Congress sought merely to require official receipt of a designation and not to further limit the right of an insured to name a beneficiary of his life insurance policy ... [not to impose] a requirement that administrative processing to a central office must win a race with death ... This holding preserves the greatest freedom to name a beneficiary consistent with the need for inter vivos official documentation of that choice.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Bremer

3. “section 8705(a) is satisfied when, as here, an employee leaves with his agency's personnel office a properly executed and witnessed official form supplied him by the government for the purpose of beneficiary designation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Bush