112 Ind. App. 549 - Coffin v. Hook’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1982
10 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 Caca v. Woodruff · 85 Ind. App. 347 - Krenz v. Ferguson Coal Co. · 92 Ind. App. 158 - Makeever v. Marlin · 105 Ind. App. 165 - J. P. O. Sandwich Shop, Inc. v. Papadopoulos · 93 Ind. App. 150 - Olsen v. Canter
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Casual,’ as used in the Workmen’s Compensation Act, is used in its usual and ordinary sense and meaning. Webster’s New International Dictionary defines ‘casual’ as ‘Happening or coming to pass without design, and without being foreseen or expected. Coming without regularity; occasional; incidental. Liable to happen; subject to chance or accident; uncertain. Having the air of a chance or incidental occurrence.’ We think the decisions in which this Court has had occasion to speak of the word ‘casual’ bear out the statement that the word is used in its ordinary acceptance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.