Spirt v. Albert’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2001
2 district · 17 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 Craft Refrigerating MacHine Co. v. Quinnipiac Brewing Co. · Maher v. . Hibernia Insurance Co. · Hodges v. Kowing · Snelling v. Merritt · Blake v. City of Waterbury
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““where, unknown to one of the parties, an instrument contains a mistake rendering it at variance with the prior understanding and agreement of the parties, and the other party learns of this mistake at the time of the execution of the instrument and later seeks to take advantage of it, equity will reform the instrument so as to make it conform to the prior understanding.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McMahon v. Tanner
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.