Brooks v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 2006
6 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 38 Cal. 2d 643 - Beck v. West Coast Life Insurance · Carter v. Carter · Bullock v. Expressmen's Mutual Life Insurance · Beck v. Downey · Albright v. Albright
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Admittedly the insured in cases such as this never anticipates being feloniously killed by the primary beneficiary. It is difficult to know what the actual intention of the insured would have been had the problem in question been brought to his attention. It is clear, however, that he did name an alternate beneficiary in the insurance policy, and in our opinion the better view is to allow the proceeds to pass according to the alternative provisions of the policy rather than go as intestate personal property.”
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.