Dees v. Logan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “When an uninsured motorist policy provision is in conflict with the clear intent of OCGA § 33-7-11, the policy provision is unenforceable and the statute controls.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 344 Ga. App. 81 - Gloria Silva v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company · 346 Ga. App. 237 - Jones v. Federated Mutual Insurance Company.

2. “No automobile liability policy or motor vehicle liability policy shall be issued . . . unless it contains an endorsement or provisions undertaking to pay the insured damages for bodily injury, loss of consortium or death of an insured or for injury to or destruction of property of an insured under the named insured’s policy sustained from the owner or operator of an uninsured motor vehicle. .. .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 290 Ga. App. 211 - Bonamico v. Kisella · 346 Ga. App. 237 - Jones v. Federated Mutual Insurance Company.

3. “[t]he plain meaning of [the foregoing] subsection is that an uninsured motorist carrier can setoff benefits which its insured may have received to compensate for property loss. This being so, we must conclude that the legislature did not intend to authorize an insurer to setoff benefits received for personal injury. That is because when a statute expressly mentions one of many things, the omitted things must be regarded as having been deliberately excluded. Alexander Properties Group v. Doe, 280 Ga. 306, 309 ( 626 SE2d 497 ) (2006); C. Brown Trucking v. Rushing, 265 Ga. App. 676, 677 ( 595 SE2d 346 ) (2004).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 309 Ga. App. 271 - State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Hall