Skinner v. Holt’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 4 district · 13 state decisions

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

1. ““The avails of any policy or policies of insurance heretofore or hereafter issued upon the life of any person and payable upon the death of such person, to the order, assigns, estate, executors or administrators of the insured, and not assigned to any other person, shall if the insured in such policy at the time of death reside or resided in this state and leave or left surviving a widow or husband or any minor child, to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of $5,000, inure to the separate use of such widow or husband or minor child or children or both, as the case may be, independently of the creditors of such deceased, and to such an amount shall not' in any action or proceeding, legal or equitable, be subject to the payment of any debts of such decedent.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Carlon

2. ““Endowment life insurance partakes of the nature of an investment,' and like other insurance is often obtained by and made payable to the assured, his executors, administrators or assigns, for the sole purpose of creating a fund subject to the payment of Ms debts and upon which his creditors may securely rely in ease other resources fail. The clear intent of the Legislature as expressed in the foregoing enactment was to defeat such purpose, and create a statute exempting from the payment of- debts, without any limitation whatever, the total-amount' of life insurance which can be in any manner obtained on the life of the assured.” Skinner v. Holt, 9 S. D. 432 , 69 N. W. 590 , 62 Ami St. Rep. 878.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Carlon

3. ““A policy of insurance, to the extent' of $5,000 on the life of an individual, in the absence of an agreement or assignment to the contrary, shall inure to the separate use of the husband or wife and children of said individual, independently of his or her creditors; and an endowment policy, payable to the assured on attaining a certain age, to the amount of $5,000 shall be exempt from liability from any of his or her debts, and the avails of any life insurance, or any other sum of money, not exceeding in amount $5,000, made payable by any mutual aid, or benevolent society upon the death of a member of such society are not subject to the debts of the deceased.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Carlon