Thompson v. Gearheart

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining why a trust relationship does not arise by virtue of the life tenant’s receipt of insurance proceeds
• “Each of them had an insurable interest in the property, but a policy in the name of one could not cover the interest of the other.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

22 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Unnamed case
  Fourth Circuit· 1996-11-27· cited 70×
• Keesecker v. Bird
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1997-07-14· cited 60×
• Standard Fire Insurance v. Berrett
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-11-13· cited 51×
• Lynch v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1954-11-22· cited 47×
• Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance v. Bolling
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1940-09-05· cited 23×
• Converse v. Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1944-02-28· cited 12×
• Board of Education v. Winding Gulf Collieries
  Fourth Circuit· 1945-12-12· cited 12×
• Rogge v. Menard County Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
  S.D. Illinois· 1960-06-08· cited 10×
• Forbes v. American International Insurance
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1970-12-16· cited 9×
• Clements v. Clements
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1936-11-12· cited 7×
• Estate of Carroll G. Frye v. MMG Insurance Company
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2018-03-22· cited 6×
• Estate v. MMG Ins. Co.
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2018-03-22· cited 6×
• United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Houska
  E.D. Virginia· 1995-08-04· cited 3×
• K-W-S
  Board of Immigration Appeals· 1961-07-01· cited 3×
• KEITH ESTATE EX REL. BUCKLAND v. Keith
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2007-04-19· cited 2×
• In Re Kelley's Estate
  Montana Supreme Court· 1931-12-01· cited 2×
• In Re West
  E.D. Virginia· 2006-04-13· cited 1×
• American Bankers Insurance v. Maness
  Fourth Circuit· 1996-12-16· cited 1×
• Dixon v. Davis
  W.D. South Carolina· 1940-02-19· cited 1×
• Jones v. Phillips
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2020-12-03

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• The Columbia Insurance Company of Alexandria, in Error v. Joseph W. Lawrence, Who Survived Thomas Poindexter
  Supreme Court· 1836-02-18· cited 146×
• Harrison v. Pepper
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1896-05-25· cited 41×
• International Trust Co. v. Boardman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1889-05-09· cited 16×
• Quarles v. Clayton
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1889-02-12· cited 12×
• Burlingame v. Goodspeed
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1891-01-09· cited 8×