Doe v. Rampley’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2018
2 federal appellate · 15 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 State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Murphy · 119 Ga. App. 414 - Travelers Indemnity Co. v. Williams · Woods v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · 179 Ga. App. 475 - Rampley v. Doe
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Globe argues the exclusion is saved by the force of OCGA § 33-7-ll(a)(3) allowing the insured to waive uninsured motorist coverage. The cited section allows waiver, not modification. The minimum coverage required is fixed by the statute. There is no allowance for the substitution of a lesser coverage. We note the absence in the record of any written waiver of uninsured motorist coverage. The acceptance of a policy with a nonconforming uninsured motorist provision is not such a waiver as the statute contemplates.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The focus of this requirement for coverage is on the owner or operator of a vehicle causing damages to the insured. The coverage attaches to the insured regardless of his location. He need not be in the insured automobile. The only requirement is that he be an insured who is legally entitled to recover damages from the owner or operator of an uninsured motor vehicle. An exclusion which would avoid coverage if the insured is occupying a noncovered motor vehicle furnished for his regular use conflicts with this requirement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Rampley] named John Doe the defendant and alleged her husband's death was caused by an unknown motorist [with insufficient insurance] who negligently drove his vehicle into the path of a truck driven by her husband.”
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.