Carter v. Vangilder’s Empirical Analysis
803 F.2d 189 · 1986
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 2006
3 federal appellate · 7 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 Carolina Casualty Insurance Company v. Insurance Company of North America T II Refrigerated Transport Co Inc · Paxton National Insurance v. Transport Indemnity Co. · Carolina Casualty Insurance v. Underwriters Insurance · 424 So. 2d 375 - Smith v. Western Preferred Cas. Co. · Transport Indemnity Company v. Paxton National Insurance Company
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under federal law, an ICC endorsement does not require that an excess coverage clause of an insurance policy be read out of the policy, resulting in that policy then providing primary coverage vis-a-vis another insurance company.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“With respect to ... any non-owned automobile, the insurance under this endorsement shall be excess insurance over any other valid and collectible insurance ... available to the insured”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“when the covered auto is a trailer which is connected to a power unit, this policy's liability coverage. . . (b) Is excess if the power unit is not a covered auto.”
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.