87 Ill. App. 3d 749 - Appelman v. Appelman’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Ferguson v. Owens (1984), 346 Pa. Super. 229 - Torchia on Behalf of Torchia v. Torchia (1985)
4 federal appellate · 36 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 Simonds v. Simonds · 24 Ill. 2d 437 - John v. Tribune Company · 58 Wis. 2d 290 - Richards v. Richards · Maginnis v. Maginnis · 71 Ill. App. 3d 900 - Lincoln National Life Insurance v. Watson
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A beneficiary may *** acquire a vested interest in the proceeds of [a] life insurance policy if he gives valuable consideration in return for the promise of the insured that the insured will name him beneficiary. [Citations.] The beneficiary named as a result of such an agreement has an equitable right which will be enforced as against any other named beneficiary except one who has a superior equitable right.” (Emphasis added.) (Brunnenmeyer, 66 Ill. App. 3d at 318 , 384 N.E.2d at 448 , quoted in Appelman, 87 Ill. App. 3d at 753 , 410 N.E.2d at 202 .)”
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.