Munn v. Robison’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2001
1 district · 4 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 Aetna Life Insurance v. Dunken · New York Life Insurance v. Adams · Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Ass'n v. Moore · Security Life Insurance Company v. Leeper · Life Cas. Ins. Co. of Tennessee v. McCray
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It necessarily follows from what we have said, and the cases cited in support thereof that the reinstatement of the insured by appellant created no new contract between them, but simply revives and reinstates the original contract and all provisions thereof, and subsequently the rights and obligations of the respective parties thereto must be measured thereby.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If, within one year from the date of issue of this policy, the insured shall, whether sane or insane, die by his own hand, the liability of the company shall be limited to the amount of the premiums paid hereon.”
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.