8 Ariz. App. 138 - Lock v. Lock’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 1999 · most notably 346 Pa. Super. 229 - Torchia on Behalf of Torchia v. Torchia (1985), 102 Wash. 2d 652 - AETNA LIFE INSURANCE v. Wadsworth (1984)
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 55 Cal. App. 344 - Shoudy v. Shoudy · 9 Cal. App. 2d 528 - Mutual Life Insurance of New York v. Franck · 123 Cal. App. 2d 145 - Waxman v. Citizens Nat. Trust & Sav. Bk. of Los Angeles · 34 Tenn. App. 516 - Goodrich v. Massachusetts Mutual Life Ins. Co. · Cullison v. Pride O'Texas Citrus Association
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]eparate funds paid for all of the coverage that resulted at the time of Mr. Lock's death. The fact that the community that had existed between [the decedent insured,] Charles Henry Lock and [his first wife,] Hazel Margaret Lock had paid a premium for a risk long since expired without loss would not give this community estate any vested interest in the proceeds of the policy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a subsequent agreement of the insured in consideration of a settlement of property rights in contemplation of divorce by the terms of which he contracts to make a party the sole irrevocable beneficiary of the policy vests the party with an equitable interest therein which may not be defeated without that party's consent.”
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.