Baughn v. Busick’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 2001
2 federal appellate · 2 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 Runyon v. Reid · AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT DER HARLANDER BUAMWOLLSPINNERIE UND ZWIRN-FABRIK v. Lawrence Walker Cotton Co. · 119 F. Supp. 383 - Wilkerson v. Maryland Cas. Co. · Poafpybitty v. Skelly Oil Company
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The only question raised by this appeal is whether, under the provisions of the policy involved in this action, plaintiff is obligated to pay, in excess of its policy limit, interest added to the verdicts in accordance with the mandate in § 9-21-10. We hold that it is not liable for such payment and that the only interest it is obligated to pay, in addition to the applicable limits of liability, is all the interest which accrued on the entire amount of the judgments after entry of such judgments and before the company paid or tendered or deposited in court those parts of the judgments which did not exceed the limit of plaintiff’s liability. “. . . The insureds became legally obligated to pay the total amount of all the verdicts returned by the jury against them. In addition, by virtue of the provisions of § 9-21-10, they became legally obligated to pay interest thereon from the date of commencement of the action. This prejudgment interest is thus included in the judgments. Therefore, these judgments represent the sums which the insureds were ‘legally obligated to pay as damages’ as a result of the 1961 automobile accident. “In our judgment, the policy language ‘all sums which the insured shall become legally obligated to pay as damages’ and ‘damages which are payable under the terms of this policy’ is unambiguous, and the clause ‘legally obligated to pay as damages’ refers to the judgments entered by the clerk of the court under our practice and not to the amount of the verd”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bossert v. Douglas
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.