Ballard v. Chavez’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
12 district · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on California First Bank v. State · Smith v. PRICE'S CREAMERIES, DIV., ETC. · Gardner-Zemke Co. v. State · State Ex Rel. State Highway & Transportation Department v. Garley
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that each party to a contract has a duty to read and familiarize himself with the contents of the contract, each party generally is presumed to know the terms of the agreement, and each is ordinarily bound thereby.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] mistaken party's fault in failing to know or discover the facts before making the contract does not bar him from ... reformation ..., unless his fault amounts to a failure to act in good faith and in accordance with reasonable standards of fair dealing.”
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.