Mercier v. Mercier’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions

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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.

1. ““(a) The amount of group life insurance and group accidental death insurance in force on an employee at the date of his death shall be paid, on the establishment of a valid claim, to the person or persons surviving at the date of his death, in the following order of precedence: “First, to the beneficiary or beneficiaries designated by the employee in a signed and witnessed writing received before death in the employing office... For this purpose, a designation, change, or cancellation of beneficiary in a will or other document not so executed and filed has no force or effect.” 5 U.S.C. §8705 (a).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Eonda v. Affinito

2. “The amount of group life insurance and group accidental death insurance in force on an employee at the date of his death shall be paid ... to the beneficiary or beneficiaries designated by the employee in a signed and witnessed writing received before death in the employing of-fice_ For this purpose, a designation, change or cancellation of beneficiary in a will or other document not so executed and filed has no force or effect.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 761 F. Supp. 48 - Lewkowicz v. Lewkowicz

3. “the federal law is such that the moving parties are entitled to summary judgment on the issue of whether a constructive trust may be imposed on the proceeds of a FEGLI policy”); McShan, 577 F.Supp. at 169 (rejecting the plaintiff's request for a constructive trust and holding that”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hardy v. Hardy