Hendrickson v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
2 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 1996 · most notably Coquille Mill & Tug Co. v. Robert Dollar Co. (1929), Miller v. United Pacific Casualty Insurance (1936)
2 district · 27 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 Walden v. Skinner · Liston v. Chapman & Dewey Land Co. · Dennis v. Northern Pacific Railway Co. · Skamania Boom Co. v. Youmans · Carson v. Lumber Co.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is undoubtedly a general rule that equity will not grant relief against mistakes of law, but the rule, like many others, has its exceptions, and we are clear that the case here is within an exception. As was said by the supreme court of the United States in Hunt v. Rousmaniere, 1 Pet. (U. S.) 1: “ ‘When an instrument is drawn and executed, which professes, or is intended, to carry into execution an agreement, whether in writing or by parol, previously entered into; but which, by mistake of the draftsman, either as to fact or law, does not fulfill, or which violates, the manifest intention of the parties to the agreement, equity will correct the mistake, so as to produce a conformity of the instrument to the agreement. ’ “In Oliver v. Mutual Commercial Marine Ins. Co., 2 Curt. (U. S.) 277, it was said: “ ‘There is a wide distinction between a case where an instrument is, what the parties agreed, it should be, but its legal effect is unexpected, and a case where an instrument was designed to carry into effect an existing binding agreement, but, by mistake fails to do so. In the former case the party never had a right to anything more than he has got. He may be disappointed in finding that what he acquired was less valuable than he expected, but he acquired all he bargained for, and there is no ground upon which a Court of Equity can give him anything more. On the contrary, in the latter case, the party had a complete right, by an existing contract, to something which, by mi”
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.