Harvey v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
3 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 1991 · most notably German-American State Bank v. Godman (1915), Ross v. Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance (1923)
3 district · 13 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.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any life insurance effected by a husband on his own life shall, in case of his death, inure to the benefit of his widow and children; and the money thence arising shall be divided between them according to the statutes of distribution, without being in any manner subject to the debts of the husband.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““If the insurance had been made payable to Harrison’s estate, and had so continued, the creditors could not have touched it before or after his death. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Moore
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.