177 W. Va. 84 - Perkins v. Doe’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 177 W. Va. 734 - National Mutual Insurance v. McMahon & Sons, Inc. (1987), Buchanan v. Doe (1993)
1 federal appellate · 47 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 Winner v. Ratzlaff · Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Webb · Bilodeau v. Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co. · John Doe v. Brown · Lee v. Comer
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he primary, if not sole purpose of mandatory uninsured motorist coverage is to protect innocent victims from the hardships caused by negligent, financially irresponsible drivers.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The Insurance Commission, of course, does not have the authority to modify the applicable law through its approval of endorsement forms.”). . The decision in Boniey raised the question of whether an insurance policy could exclude uninsured motorist coverage for an all-terrain vehicle (hereinafter”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The 'John Doe' suit initiated by the Perkins is an action in tort.”
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.