Kravitz Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Burd v. Sussex Mutual Insurance Company (1970), Greenberg v. Aetna Insurance (1967)
11 federal appellate · 67 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 Local 167 of International Brotherhood of Teamsters Chauffeurs Stablemen Helpers of America v. United States · Commonwealth v. Kravitz · Mutual Life Ins Co of New York v. Armstrong · Hurtt v. Stirone · Schindler v. Royal Insurance Co.
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No slayer shall in any way acquire any property or receive any benefit as the result of the death of the decedent, but such property shall pass as provided in the sections following.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““Means any person who participates, either as a principal or as an accessory before the fact, in the willful and unlawful killing of any other person.” (emphasis supplied)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““This chapter shall not be considered penal in nature, but shall be construed broadly in order to effect the policy of this State that no person shall be allowed to profit by his own wrong, wherever committed.””
2 later decisions 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.