Seidlitz v. Eames’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. Greenburg · Equitable Life Assur. Soc. of the United States v. Weightman · Walton v. Walton · 116 Ind. App. 290 - Beene v. Gibraltar Industrial Life Insurance · Strickland v. Wysowatcky
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A named beneficiary of a bond, life insurance policy, or other contractual arrangement who kills the principal obligee or the person upon whose life the policy is issued and, as a result thereof, is convicted of, pleads guilty to, or enters a plea of nolo contendere to the crime of murder in the first or second degree ... is not entitled to any benefit under the bond, policy, or oth er contractual arrangement, and it becomes payable as though the killer had predeceased the decedent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.