Supreme Conclave v. Cappella’s Empirical Analysis
41 F. 1 · 1890
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2002
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 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 Martin v. Stubbings · Hellenberg v. District Number One of the Independent Order of Berith · Splawn v. Chew · Holland v. Taylor · Masonic Mutual Benefit Society v. Burkhart
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.
““The general rule that the insured is bound to make such change of beneficiary in the manner pointed out by the policy and bylaws of the association is subject to three exceptions: (1) If the society has waived a strict compliance with its own rules, and, in pursuance of a request of the insured to change his beneficiary, has issued a new certificate, the original beneficiary will not be heard to complain that the course indicated by the regulations was not pursued. (2) If it be beyond the power of the insured to comply literally with the regulations, a court of equity will treat the change as having been legally made. (3) If the insured has pursued the course pointed out by the laws of the association, and has done all in his power to change the beneficiary, but, before the new certificate is actually issued, he dies, a court of equity will treat such certificate as having been issued.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clyburn v. Roundtree
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.