Stringer v. Bufkin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. “the statute says that the insuror is not required to provide uninsured motorist coverage where that coverage has previously been rejected unless the insured has given the insuror a written revocation of that rejection. The statute does not prohibit the insuror from issuing such a policy. Even without a written request for the coverage, the insuror has the option of providing it upon oral request. ... It follows then, that where an insurance agent orally promises to bind coverage and that agent has not required a written request for coverage, the insurance agent has merely waived his statutory right to demand such a written request.... Where an insurance agent has waived the requirement of a written request for coverage, there is no logical reason for allowing that agent’s oral promise to bind to have any less significance than any other agent’s oral promise to bind insurance. It is the promise to bind which the insured relies on and that reliance is no less significant where the agent has waived a procedural requirement such as a written request to provide coverage.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 935 So. 2d 1127 - Jones v. Southern United Fire Insurance