Cook v. Cook

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• attempting to change beneficiaries of life insurance policy through a will does not fall within “substantial compliance” rule because no endeavor was made to communicate the change to the insurer
• “[i]t is a fundamental rule of 17 law, as conceded by both parties, that in an ordinary life insurance policy where the insured reserves the right to change the beneficiary named therein, such change may be made by him at 18 any time prior to his death”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

53 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Susan Cripps, Defendant-Cross-Claimant-Appellant v. Life Insurance Company of North America, Plaintiff-Cross-Defendant-Appellee
  Ninth Circuit· 1992-12-01· cited 655×
• Beckwith v. Dahl
  California Court of Appeal· 2012-05-03· cited 101×
• Grimm v. Grimm
  California Supreme Court· 1945-03-27· cited 96×
• Loring v. Town of Kingsley
  California Supreme Court· 1946-12-17· cited 95×
• Watenpaugh v. State Teacher's Retirement System
  California Supreme Court· 1959-03-10· cited 57×
• Robert C. Sears and Lavonne Stern v. Karen Austin
  Ninth Circuit· 1961-06-20· cited 44×
• Estate of Norris
  California Court of Appeal· 1947-02-19· cited 40×
• Wells Fargo Bank & Union Trust Co. v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 1948-05-25· cited 33×
• Stevens v. Torregano
  California Court of Appeal· 1961-05-15· cited 33×
• Doss v. Kalas
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1963-06-26· cited 27×
• McBain v. Pratt
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1973-10-04· cited 27×
• Estate of Buckhantz
  California Court of Appeal· 1958-04-23· cited 20×
• Watenpaugh v. State Teachers' Retirement
  California Supreme Court· 1959-03-10· cited 19×
• Kane v. Union Mutual Life Insurance
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1981-12-31· cited 18×
• Cranston v. Mendenhall
  California Court of Appeal· 1960-07-05· cited 17×
• Eggert v. American Trust Co.
  California Court of Appeal· 1945-10-30· cited 16×
• Estate of White
  California Court of Appeal· 1945-06-27· cited 16×
• Goldberg v. Goldberg
  California Court of Appeal· 1963-06-27· cited 16×
• Estate of Sparling v. Commissioner
  U.S. Tax Court· 1973-06-05· cited 15×
• Vincent v. Security-First National Bank
  California Court of Appeal· 1945-01-19· cited 11×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Grigsby v. Russell
  Supreme Court· 1911-12-04· cited 153×
• Jory v. Supreme Council American Legion of Honor
  California Supreme Court· 1894-12-07· cited 56×
• Pimentel v. Conselho Supremo de Uniao Portugueza do Estado da California
  California Supreme Court· 1936-04-29· cited 35×
• In re the Estate of Gwin
  California Supreme Court· 1888-11-01· cited 17×
• Supreme Council v. Gehrenbeck
  California Supreme Court· 1899-03-18· cited 7×