Fearn v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 1952 · most notably First Nat. Bank of Birmingham v. Love (1936), Mutual Service Funeral Homes v. Fehler (1952)
1 federal appellate · 25 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 New York Life Insurance Company v. Statham et al. · Keel v. Larkin · Ware v. Curry · Abney v. Kingsland & Co. · Anderson v. Anderson
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The contract of life insurance has its inception in the issue of the policy, and is a complete and entire contract for the life of the assured, continuing during life, and payable at death when no earlier definite period is fixed, but subject to be discontinued by nonpayment of the premiums as agreed, such payments being conditions subsequent. The annual premium is not paid in consideration of insurance for a single year, and its payment is not a condition precedent to renewal. Each premium constitutes a part of the consideration of the contract as one and entire, and the amount is fixed and regulated by the prospective duration of the life of the assured, which enters as an element into the contract.””
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.