Lanier v. Traub’s Empirical Analysis
934 F.2d 287 · 1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 2012
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Bonner v. City of Prichard · Ridgway v. Ridgway · Stribling v. United States · Nunn v. Nunn · Yanis v. United States
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. Widow or widower; if none, it is payable to 2. Child or children in equal shares with the share of any deceased child distributed among the descendants of that child; if none, it is payable to 3. Parent(s) in equal shares; if none, it is payable to 4. A duly appointed executor or administrator of the insured’s estate, and if none to 5. Other next of kin.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“NOTE: If you want a specific person to receive your insurance, then you must name the person in Part 2, otherwise, it will be paid as provided above.”
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.