Barbin v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2006 · most notably Meyer v. United States (1963), In Re Gallagher's Will (1953)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 51 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Burleigh v. Clough · Tyler v. Treasurer & Receiver General · Burns v. Nolette · 4 E.H. Smith 269 - Spencer v. . Myers · Anderson v. Broad Street National Bank
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The distinction between contingent and vested but defeasible is sometimes of importance when title to real estate is involved. But when the only title is a right under a contract to receive a sum of money which is to become due upon the happening of a future event, the need to observe the niceties of real estate nomenclature disappears. Under either the Massachusetts or the New Hampshire rule the designated beneficiaries took a present legal interest in the money upon the death of the party insured. So long as the power of defeasance is not exercised, they stand in the position of one having a title which the law will recognize, and for the protection of which they are entitled to the usual legal and equitable remedies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]n view of the underlying purpose for which life insurance is generally effected, it appears that the sounder view is that designated beneficiaries have substantial rights.”). 17 . Tort law has for at least a century afforded protection to interests that may be characterized as”
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.