192 W. Va. 641 - Castle v. Williamson’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2018
11 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 184 W. Va. 331 - Pristavec v. Westfield Insurance · 189 W. Va. 532 - Postlethwait v. Boston Old Colony Insurance · 187 W. Va. 72 - Alexander v. State Automobile Mutual Insurance · 158 W. Va. 188 - Tynes v. Supreme Life Insurance Co. of America · 189 W. Va. 722 - Arndt v. Burdette
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nderinsurance coverage ... is in the nature of excess coverage. It is not intended to be liability insurance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where a guest passenger is injured by the concurrent negligence of her host driver and a third party, the guest passenger may not recover under the host driver's underinsured motorist insurance if the host driver's underinsured motorist policy contains clear and unambiguous language which requires the exhaustion of applicable liability coverage before the underinsured motorist coverage is activated and the guest passenger fails to obtain the full amount of the liability limits from the third-party tortfeasor's carrier.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We’ll pay damages under this coverage caused by an accident with an underin-sured motor vehicle only after the limits of liability under any applicable liability bonds or policies have been exhausted by payment of judgments or settlements. Id. at 646 , 453 S.E.2d 624 .”
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.