Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Philadelphia v. St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company, Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Philadelphia v. St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company. Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Philadelphia ("Vna")’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Reliance National Insurance v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. (2003), 555 F. Supp. 2d 505 - Norfab Corp. v. Travelers Indemnity Co. (2008)
2 district · 2 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 Standard Venetian Blind Co. v. American Empire Insurance · 156 Ill. 2d 384 - Crum & Forster Managers Corp. v. Resolution Trust Corp. · City of Hazleton v. City Council · Lavelle v. Koch · Cadwallader v. New Amsterdam Casualty Co.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“stem[med] from [its] effort to operate its business, not from any professional services that were or should have been provided by the discharge planners, and thus do not even potentially fall within the policy's coverage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A `professional' act or service is one arising out of a vocation, calling, occupation or employment involving specialized knowledge, labor, or skill.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The relevant consideration is not the title or character of the party performing the act but the act itself.”
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.