Walters v. Dunlap’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 1995
6 federal appellate · 3 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 Cosmopolitan Mutual Insurance v. Continental Casualty Co. · Grasberger v. Liebert & Obert, Inc. · Magenau v. Aetna Freight Lines, Inc. · 158 Pa. Super. 404 - Speier Et Ux. v. Ayling · Kimble v. Wilson
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . There is no conflict. Under b(1) there is no coverage unless the automobile is used exclusively in the business of the named insured. Under f, if the automobile is leased to others, Appellee's insurance is excess over the valid collectible other insurance. Of course, if there is no other insurance, then it would become primary insurance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“under Pennsylvania law the decision must rest upon a construction of the language employed by the respective insurers and not upon any so called primary tort-feasor doctrine or upon any arbitrary rule or circumstance.”
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.