Kiser v. Lucas’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 2007 · most notably Harmon v. State Roads Commission (1966), Keyser v. Calvary Brethren Church (1949)
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 Peters v. Bain · Northern Assurance Company of London v. Grand View Building Association · Connihan v. Thompson · McNeely Co. v. Bank of North America · Christopher v. Sisk
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f a man executes a voluntary deed declaring certain trusts and happens to die, and it is proved from instructions or otherwise that the deed was not prepared in the exact manner which he intended, the deed may be reformed and those particular provisions necessary to carry his intention into effect may be introduced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Roos v. Roos“On principle it would seem that if a mistake exist within the rule, it should be cured even if the settlor be dead, provided he died without having confirmed the grant in the form in which it was executed, and all the conditions exist for the reformation of the deed of trust.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Roos v. Roos
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.