Coffel v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Lambert v. Yellowbird, Inc. (1986), Ok Sand Gravel Incorporated v. Martin Marietta Technologies Incorporated (1994)
5 federal appellate · 20 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 Huff v. Travelers Indemnity Co. · 169 Ind. App. 413 - Weenig v. Wood · 156 Ind. App. 233 - Coffey v. Wininger · 164 Ind. App. 516 - Universal CIT Credit Corporation v. Shepler · 181 Ind. App. 603 - Jay Clutter Custom Digging v. English
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here the initial possession is lawful, conversion occurs only after an unqualified demand for return.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"When a new trial is granted because the verdict ... [does] not accord with the evidence, the court shall make special findings of fact upon each material issue or element of the claim or defense upon which a new trial is granted. Such finding shall indicate whether the decision is against the weight of the evidence or whether it is clearly erroneous as contrary to or not supported by the evidence; if the decision is found to be against the weight of the evidence, the findings shall relate the supporting and opposing evidence to each issue upon which a new trial is granted; if the decision is found to be clearly erroneous as contrary to or not supported by the evidence, the findings shall show why judgment was not entered upon the evidence."”
2 later decisions 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.