192 W. Va. 317 - Helmick v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Arizona Property & Casualty Insurance Guaranty Fund v. Helme · 175 W. Va. 337 - Shamblin v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance · Manriquez v. Mid-Century Insurance Co. of Texas · 17 Kan. App. 2d 846 - Mid-Century Insurance v. Shutt · 182 Mich. App. 425 - Gibbs v. Armovit
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any two antecedent negligent acts do not constitute two “occurrences.” The term “occurrence” in a limitation of liability clause ... refers unmistakably to the resulting event for which the insured becomes liable and not to some antecedent cause(s) of the injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he term “accident” can only be interpreted to mean the resulting injury or damage sustained rather than the various factors which may have contributed to the causation of that ultimate resulting event.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Simply put, the liability limits are per accident, not per act of negligence. Any contrary interpretation of the policy language would be unfounded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.