Bell v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 3 state decisions

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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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"[W]e find that [the wife's] interest as a beneficiary was nothing more than an expectancy. Her interest in the policies themselves was limited to their cash surrender value. Since a change in a beneficiary designation in a life insurance policy is not a conveyance or disposal of a marital asset, [the husband's] decision to designate [another person] rather than [the wife] as his beneficiary did not violate the lower court's injunction. . . ."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thomas v. Thomas

2. “[i]t is settled in Tennessee that [the beneficiary of a life-insurance policy] has no vested right or interest in the policy but rather a mere expectancy.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thomas v. Thomas

3. “`removing, selling, mortgaging, transferring, or in any other manner dissipating the property or assets of the parties'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thomas v. Thomas