Doss v. Kalas’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Goodman v. Newzona Investment Co. (1966), Matter of Estate of Dobert (1998)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 22 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 Cook v. Cook · Newhall v. McGill · Carrillo v. Taylor · Sears v. Austin · Pedron v. Olds
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. “In McLennan v. McLennan, supra, before his death the insured attempted to change the beneficiary by a method other than that provided for in the policy. The insurer refused to accept the change and advised him he must follow the procedure set forth in the policy. The insured then died, leaving a will which attempted to change the beneficiary. Later the insurer interpleaded, and ive held the interpleader did not constitute a waiver in vieio of the fact that the insurer had previously indicated its intent to insist on compliance loith the change of beneficiary provision in the policy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ * * * The provisions in a policy of insurance as to the procedure for making a change of beneficiary are for the benefit of the insurer. If the insurer does not choose to require enforcement thereof, and the rights of the respective claimants alone are before the court, the intent of the insured should govern, (citations omitted).” Doss v. Kalas, supra, 94 Ariz. at 251 , 383 P.2d at 172 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The beneficiary, during the life of the insured, has no vested right which the law protects and the insured, if the right to name the beneficiary is not irrevocable, may the change the beneficiary without his consent and without notice to him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Meza
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.