Fidelity & Guaranty Fire Corp. v. Ormand’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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. ““The evidence shows this man was overdrawn at the Bank on the day of the fire. That Mrs. Bayless’ hospital and doctors’ bills incurred before the fire had not been paid at the time of trial of this case some two years later. In two years he had had or been closely associated with six insured fires. This fire occurred in the early morning hours, deep in the piney woods without explanation. The children were not at home. Three or four truck loads of furniture had been moved a week before the fire. Plaintiffs although given four or five opportunities never testified to grabbing any clothes and getting out at that early hour but merely to getting out. Bay-less’s first wife testified he watched a truck burn and wanted her to set fire to a house. His own son testified he was not alarmed when the house formerly at this location burned and he was in the field. “Certainly Plaintiffs below stood to profit by the fire and all circumstances pointed to the need. Plaintiffs’ testimony is incredible and the judgment is without support of any credible testimony and against the great weight and preponderance of the evidence.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Standard National Insurance Company v. Bayless

2. ““From a preponderance of the testimony, what pecuniary loss or damage, if any, do you find was caused to the household furniture, wearing apparel and personal property of the plaintiff by reason of the fire * * *?””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Crisp v. Security National Insurance Company