148 Ind. App. 250 - Coons v. Baird’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2005 · most notably Pro-Eco, Inc. v. Board of Commissioners (1995), Harris v. Wagshal (1975)
3 federal appellate · 22 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 L. E. Wallach, Inc. v. Toll · Wright v. Tichenor · 78 Ind. App. 101 - Butsch v. Swallow · Sullenger v. Baecher · 141 Ind. App. 220 - Bandy v. MYERS
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has been many times held that an option to purchase gives no right of property in and to the thing which is the subject of the option. It is not a sale. It is not even an agreement for a sale.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Appellants assert that Schoonover never tried to exercise the option by giving the prescribed 30 days' notice.... Defendants by their sale of the property had made it impossible for them to perform under the option. They had breached the covenant conferring an option to purchase. As stated in 51 C.J.8. Landlord and Tenant § 88, p. 648: 'In case of a breach of a covenant conferring on the lessee an option to purchase, the lessee is entitled to recover damages sustained by him.' ... Defendants by their act in conveying the property made it impossible for them to honor the option."”
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.