Knights Templar & Masons' Life Indemnity Co. v. Berry’s Empirical Analysis

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9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The company refused to pay the full amount named in the policy, claiming that by the express provisions of the policy self-destruction by the insured, whether sane or insane, rendered the contract for the payment of $5,000 void, and the company was only bound to. pay the amount which had been paid in assessments by the insured. This action was brought in the Circuit Court for the Western District of Missouri, to recover the full sum of $5,000. The case was tried to the court, a jury being waived. The parties stipulated that the company was liable for the full amount claimed by the plaintiffs, unless excused by the clause in the policy providing that the same should be void in case of suicide; . . . Judgment in favor of the plaintiffs having been entered for the full amount of the policy,' the case was brought to this court upon writ of error. . . . In our judgment, the court below ruled correctly in holding that the policy sued on was a contract made in Missouri, and, as such, that the provisions of § 5982 [the same as thp statute now in question] are applicable thereto; and therefore the judgment is affirmed, at costs of plaintiff in error.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Whitfield v. Ætna Life Insurance

2. “‘‘And all such foreign, companies are hereby declared to be subject to, and required to conform to, the provisions of section 5912 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri of 1889: provided, always, Hint nothing herein contained slia.ll subject any corporation doing business muter this article to any other provisions or requirements of the general insurance laws of this state, except as distinctly herein set forth.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jarman v. Knights Templars' & Masons' Life Indemnity Co.

3. ““When, therefore, the policy sued on in the present case was issued and delivered to [the assured] in Missouri, the clause found therein touching the liability for death by suicide was nugatory, under the provisions of the statutes of Missouri then in force, provided the policy or contract of insurance is of such a nature as to be subject to the section of the statute in question.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mutual Ben. Life Ins. v. Robison