Turnpaugh v. Wolf’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Peoples Bank & Trust Co. v. Price (1999), Jordan v. Talaga (1989)
2 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 Fletcher v. Holmes · Whisman v. Fawcett · Dotlich v. Dotlich · Orkin Exterminating Co., Inc. v. Walters · McEntire v. Indiana National Bank
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Where the terms of a contract are clear the court merely applies its provisions. Unambiguous language is conclusive upon the parties to the contract and the courts. If the language of the instrument is unambiguous the intent of the parties is determined from its four corners. Parol or extrinsic evidence is inadmissible to expand, vary or explain the instrument unless there has been a showing of fraud, mistake, ambiguity, illegality, duress or undue influence. A contract is ambiguous only if a reasonable person could find its terms susceptible to more than one interpretation." Turnpaugh v. Wolf (1985), Ind.App., 482 N.E.2d 506, 508, 509 . (citations omitted)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“obligation (as a debt) created by a decree of a court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Murphy v. Murphy
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.