The Prudential Insurance Company of America v. Aleene T. King, and Pamela Nicholson Coleman and Judy C. Crick’s Empirical Analysis
453 F.2d 925 · 1971
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2001
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1335
Relies on Wissner v. Wissner · Federal Power Commission v. Sierra Pacific Power Co. · Bradley v. United States · Mitchell v. United States · United States v. Williams
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Any amount of insurance under this subchapter in force on any member or former member on the date of his death shall be paid, upon the establishment of a valid claim therefor, to the person or persons surviving at the date of his death, in the following order of precedence: First, to the beneficiary or beneficiaries as the member or former member may have designated by a writing received in the uniformed service prior to such death; . Second, if there be no such beneficiary, to the widow or widower of such member of former member; Third, if none of the above, to the child or children of such member or former member and descendants of deceased children by representation;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The liberal policy, adopted by this court among others, effectuated a change of beneficiary upon proof of . two conditions: First that the serviceman intended to change the beneficiary of his particular policy, and second, that he performed some overt act directed toward accomplishing that end. Benard v. United States, 368 F.2d 897 (8th Cir. 1966).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“certainly ... should not be a vehicle by which the serviceman's will or intent could be nullified.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.