Milam v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently December 2007 · most notably Carter v. Carter (1956), Seaboard All-Fla. Ry. Co. v. Levitt, Et Vir. (1932)
6 federal appellate · 32 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 Curry v. Lehman · Davis v. Florida Power Co. · Jackson Lumber Co. v. Walton County · Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States v. McRee · State v. Beardsley
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule is that the distribution of the proceeds of a life insurance policy is governed by the law of insured's domicile; subject to certain exceptions, as in the McRee Case, above cited, where the contract was consummated in another state and made payable in accordance with its laws.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Remy
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.