Amos v. Coffey’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Chawla v. BurgerBusters, Inc. (1998), Shevel's, Inc. v. Southeastern Associates, Inc. (1984)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 78 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 69 Cal. 2d 33 - Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. G. W. Thomas Drayage & Rigging Co. · Winn v. Aleda Const. Co., Inc. · Wilson v. Holyfield · Berry v. Klinger · United States v. Mescall
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'language admits of being understood in more than one way or refers to two or more things at the same time.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n controversies between two parties to a contract, parol evidence of prior or contemporaneous oral negotiations or stipulations is inadmissible to vary, contradict, add to, or explain the terms of a complete, unambiguous, unconditional, written instrument.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is the intention of the parties of the first part to convey to the party of the second part all the real estate which they now own in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, including but not restricted to the lands described above.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.