Walker v. Vanderpool’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2011
13 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 Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. v. United States · Hagan Lumber Co. v. Duryea School District · Monsanto Chemical Co. v. American Bitumuls Co. · Smith v. Ryan · Rosenwald v. Lucas
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We conclude that the meaning of the insurance provision is that the Walkers were obligated to procure insurance which would protect Vanderpool from loss by fire, regardless of cause, other than fraud on the part of Vanderpool. 225 Va. at 271 , 302 S.E.2d 669, 672 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“where the plaintiff has contracted to protect the defendant from a loss by procuring insurance, the plaintiff (or his subrogee) may not recover for that loss from the defendant even if the loss is caused by the defendant's negligence.”
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.