McRae v. Warmack’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2001
19 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 Warnock v. Davis · Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. Schaefer · Cammack v. Lewis · Ruse v. . the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company · Helmetag's Adm'r v. Miller
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is therefore we'll settled that the issue of a policy to one who has no insurable interest in the life of the insured, but who pays the premiums for the chance of collecting the policy, is invalid, because it is a wagering contract and against a sound public policy. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.