Atkinson v. Darling’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 1986 · most notably Home Owners' Loan Corporation v. Stevens (1935), Bateman v. Roller (1949)
26 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 City of Sedan v. Church · Sanders v. Wakefield · Cox v. Beard · Lionel C. Simpson Plumbing & Heating Co. v. Geschke · Howell v. Pugh
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“.“Furthermore, if indeed the forty acres was to be reserved for the full duration of the lease, and the defendant noticed the mistake of the scrivener at the time the lease was executed, and if he purposely or thoughtlessly kept silent .about it, the want of mutuality in the matter of the mistake would not stay the hand of a court of equity to correct the writing, as the attitude of defendant in such case’ would be treated as -a constructive fraud on his part.” (p. 231.)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Haymaker v. Alford · Russell v. Ely
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.