Mitchell v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Breckline v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · Herring v. Blakeley · Sears v. Austin · Stribling v. United States · Continental Bank & Trust Co. v. Sovereign Camp, W. O. W.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The words 'payable' and 'widow' * * * in the * * * statute do not refer to the status of the beneficiary at the time the policy * * * is issued and the beneficiary is designated, but are clearly applicable to the status of the beneficiary when the policy matures and becomes due and payable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the term 'widow' clearly means [only] the woman surviving on the death of the man to whom she was legally married at the time of his death.”
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.