Boice v. Shepard’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 1930
12 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 Miller v. National Council of the Knights & Ladies of Security · Olmstead v. Masonic Mutual Benefit Society · Bankers' Union of the World v. Crawford · Pilcher v. Puckett · Kemper v. Modern Woodmen of America
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The legislature, having separated beneficiary societies from insurance companies and made special provisions for providing and paying benefits to members, simply declared that hereafter this distinction should be maintained, and that acts relating to insurance should not be understood as applicable to beneficiary societies unless they were expressly mentioned in the act. The act in question, instead of making express reference to beneficiary societies, uses language, as we have seen, appropriate only to insurance companies, and its provisions are not in harmony with the theory of beneficiary societies.” (p. 312.)”
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.