10 Wash. 2d 396 - Handley v. Oakley’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably 92 Wash. 2d 21 - Transamerica Insurance Group v. United Pacific Insurance (1979), Bituminous Cas. Corp. v. Travelers Ins. Co. (1954)
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 28 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 McNicol's Case · Wheeler v. London Guarantee & Accident Co. · State Ex Rel. Butte Brewing Co. v. District Court · Stammer v. Kitzmiller · Starr v. Aetna Life Insurance
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of the vehicle. The United Pacific policy states that the company will pay on behalf of the insured all sums which the insured shall become legally obligated to pay as damages . . . arising out of the ownership, maintenance or use of the owned automobile or any non-owned automobile. (Italics ours.) Transamerica correctly concedes that liability attaches only if there is some causal connection between the use of the vehicle and the accident. The fact that the vehicle was the”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The above case is not applicable here, as it is apparent that the theory upon which the decision was based is that there had been no completed delivery to the person to whom the commodity on the truck was to be delivered, and that until that occurred, the insurance company was liable for the injury occasioned by the unloading. In the instant case, the use of the truck as a means of transportation had been completed prior to the accident, and the commodities therein contained had been delivered to Oakley, for the council.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he truck was but a place, and not the instrument. The accident would have happened had the ice cream been stored in or dispensed from any sort of a vehicle or place.”
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.