Dunn v. Terry’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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

1. “The legislature’s goal of promoting full recovery by innocent victims would be subverted if the economic-only uninsured motorist insurer were to receive credit for all amounts paid for economic and noneconomic damages for bodily injuries. Likewise, the legislative aim to reduce insurance rates would be supplanted if this insurer received no credit for the portion of the amount paid that was attributable to economic damages for bodily injury. To strike a balance between these concerns, the economic-only uninsured motorist insurer should get credit for the economic damages paid for bodily injury.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Woods v. Holzhauer

2. “When an insurer elects to sell economic-only UM insurance, the insurer agrees to bear the risk of economic loss to its insured. Allowing the insurer to avoid a portion of this risk by automatically allocating the entirety of a settlement between the insured and a tort-feasor as a economic loss would be contrary to the policies embodied in La.R.S. 22:1406 and would allow the insurer to collect a premium for covering a risk that the insurer could then avoid when the risk was realized.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Woods v. Holzhauer