Van Winckel v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2007
2 federal appellate · 10 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 McKay v. Citizens Rapid Transit Co. · Wiley N. Jackson Co. v. City of Norfolk · Cox v. Hagan · Lowdon v. Lowdon · Mann v. Bradshaw's Adm'r
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he law implies a contract between [such persons] to contribute ratably towards the discharge of the obligation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The right to contribution becomes complete and enforceable upon the payment or discharge of the common obligation. Van Winckel v. Carter, 198 Va. 550 (1956), 95 S.E.2d 148 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brooks v. Brown“Wiley N. Jackson Co. v. City of Norfolk, 197 Va. 62 , 66, 87 S.E.2d 781 , 784 (1955). Thus, contribution lies”
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.