220 W. Va. 329 - Strahin v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In order for an insured or an assignee of an insured to recover the amount of a verdict in excess of the applicable insurance policy limits from an insurer pursuant to this Court’s decision in Shamblin v. Nationwide Mutual Ins. Co., 183 W.Va. 585 , 396 S.E.2d 766 (1990), the insured must actually be exposed to personal liability in excess of the policy limits at the time the excess verdict is rendered. 17”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Penn-America Insurance Co. v. Beecher v. Osborne

2. “In order for an insured or an assignee of an insured to recover the amount of a verdict in excess of the applicable insurance policy limits from an insurer pursuant to this Court’s decision in Shamblin .... the insured must be actually exposed to personal liability in excess of the policy limits at the time the excess verdict is rendered.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bailey v. Bradford

3. “[r]esearch, however, has revealed only a handful of cases in which third parties, seeking to enforce a consent judgment which included a covenant not to execute against the insured, have been entitled to recover against an insurer in excess of policy limits.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 222 W. Va. 450 - Horkulic v. Galloway