McGowan v. McGowan

How courts have described this case

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

• “It is well 11 established in this state that in the event of an intentional killing of the insured by the primary 12 beneficiary, the contingent beneficiaries become entitled to the insurance proceeds.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Cartwright v. Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  California Supreme Court· 1976-04-28· cited 44×
• Atlas Assurance Co. v. McCombs Corp.
  California Court of Appeal· 1983-08-17· cited 42×
• Estate of Kramme
  California Supreme Court· 1978-02-06· cited 41×
• County of Los Angeles v. Civil Service Commission
  California Court of Appeal· 1995-10-23· cited 29×
• Arneson v. Fox
  California Supreme Court· 1980-12-01· cited 24×
• Unnamed case
  Ninth Circuit· 1975-10-23· cited 18×
• State Ex Rel. Miller v. Sencindiver
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-12-19· cited 13×
• Estate of Ladd
  California Court of Appeal· 1979-03-29· cited 12×
• Mize v. Reserve Life Insurance
  California Court of Appeal· 1975-05-28· cited 11×
• Rusheen v. Drews
  California Court of Appeal· 2002-06-12· cited 9×
• Estate of Jeffers
  California Court of Appeal· 1982-04-29· cited 7×
• Aetna Life Insurance v. Primofiore
  California Court of Appeal· 1978-05-16· cited 7×
• Wilson v. Wilson
  California Court of Appeal· 1978-03-03· cited 7×
• People v. Yartz
  California Court of Appeal· 2003-06-30· cited 1×
• Su-Chang Haung Tang v. Aetna Life Insurance
  Ninth Circuit· 1975-09-29· cited 1×
• John Hancock Mutual Life Ins. v. Greene
  Duval County Circuit Court· 1975-11-06
• People v. Miller
  California Court of Appeal· 2022-05-18

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Leary v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1969-05-19· cited 1,672×
• Bernhard v. Bank of America National Trust & Saving Association
  California Supreme Court· 1942-03-06· cited 895×
• Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City Railroad v. Turnipseed
  Supreme Court· 1910-12-19· cited 426×
• Wissner v. Wissner
  Supreme Court· 1950-02-06· cited 281×
• Kriegler v. Eichler Homes, Inc.
  California Court of Appeal· 1969-01-29· cited 149×
• Beck v. West Coast Life Insurance
  California Supreme Court· 1952-03-21· cited 60×
• People v. Gilmore
  California Supreme Court· 1854-10-15· cited 55×
• Caminetti v. Imperial Mutual Life Insurance Co.
  California Court of Appeal· 1943-06-29· cited 45×
• Neiman v. Hurff
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1952-12-22· cited 43×
• People v. Stevenson
  California Supreme Court· 1962-11-20· cited 30×
• West Coast Life Insurance v. Crawford
  California Court of Appeal· 1943-05-25· cited 26×
• Overell v. Overell
  California Court of Appeal· 1937-01-14· cited 25×
• Turner v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
  California Court of Appeal· 1943-01-29· cited 20×
• Abbey v. Lord
  California Court of Appeal· 1959-03-06· cited 18×
• Willie A. Davis v. Aetna Life Insurance Company, Charles S. Swanegan, Daisy Swanegan, and Lloyd W. Swanegan, as Administrator
  Ninth Circuit· 1960-07-06· cited 15×
• Martin v. Superior Court
  California Court of Appeal· 1971-05-10· cited 11×
• Manufacturers Life Ins. Co. v. Moore
  S.D. California· 1953-11-04· cited 9×
• Prudential Ins. Co. of America v. Harrison
  S.D. California· 1952-07-18· cited 6×
• Bedell Engineering Co. v. Rouse
  California Court of Appeal· 1943-03-22· cited 5×