45 App. D.C. 253 - Masters v. Hartmann’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 1982
7 federal appellate · 2 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 Sheridan Brick Works v. Marion Trust Co. · Jasper Land Co. v. Wallis & Carley
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) The court finds that the Royal Life Insurance Company discontinued its business on February 19, 1912, and failed to perform its contracts of insurance with its policy holders after, that date. “(b) The auditor will state an account showing the liability of the Royal Life Insurance Company, at the time of filing this report, to each and the total to all of its policy holders, whose policies were in full force and efEeet on February 19, 1912, including the policy holders of the Modern Workmen of the World who accepted the liability of the Royal Life Insurance Company. The status, claim, and right of each such policy holder shall be settled and stated in accordance with the practice in cases of failed and dissolved insurance corporations. “(c) The auditor will show in said account, where ascertainable, the names of these policy holders who are living and of those persons entitled to the amounts owing on the policies of those who are dead; and he will show why they are so entitled, whether under the terms of the policy, by assignment, by subrogation, or as next of kin or otherwise. “(d) The auditor will give such notice of the proceedings before him as he deems adequate, by publication in such paper or papers and for such period, not less than 30 days, as the auditor may deem best; and each party hereto is directed to give to the auditor all pertinent information in his possession or knowledge. The auditor will take such testimony as may be necessary, and will report his fin”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hartmann v. Masters
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.