Chambers v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2002 · most notably Hulsey v. Mid-America Preferred Insurance Co. (1989), Barnes v. Oklahoma Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. (2001)
2 federal appellate · 24 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 Stephens v. Allied Mutual Insurance Company · Aldcroft v. Fidelity & Casualty Co. · Keel v. MFA Insurance Company · Travelers Insurance v. National Farmers Union Property & Casualty Co. · Bacchus v. Farmers Insurance Group Exchange
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.
“Since the intention of the legislature is so clear that payments made by a tort-fea-sor should not diminish the injured party’s recovery under his own policy, it is even more likely that the set-off of benefits recovered from a collateral source would be prohibited. In accord with the rationales above-stated, we hold that the limitation provision is ... void since if given effect it would reduce the amount of coverage available under the uninsured motorist provisions to less than the amount required by statute and hence is violative of the statute. For the same reason we reject the appellee’s subsidiary argument that it be allowed a partial set-off insofar as its coverage liability ($10,000) exceeds the 1977 statutory minimum required uninsured motorist coverage ($5,000).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that any payment made by the insured tort-feasor shall not reduce or be a credit against the total liability limits as provided in the insured's own [UIM] coverage[ ]”
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.