Davies v. Lahann’s Empirical Analysis
145 F.2d 656 · 1944
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 1987
10 federal appellate · 2 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 Freund v. United States · Prudential Ins. Co. of America v. Carlson · Newell v. Phillips Petroleum Co. · United States v. Golden · Border Nat. Bank v. American Nat. 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a contract executed under a mutual misapprehension as to a material fact going to the essence of the contract may be avoided, provided no right has been acquired in due course.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.