171 W. Va. 614 - Webb v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2017
20 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 Dimmey v. Wheeling & E. G. Railroad · Virginia Iron, Coal & Coke Co. v. Graham · Williams v. Swango · Smith v. Owens · Pennybacker v. Laidley
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A mistake of law ... consists of a mistaken opinion or inference arising from an imperfect or incorrect exercise of judgment upon the facts as they really are and occurs when a person, having full knowledge of the facts, is ignorant of or comes to an erroneous conclusion as to the legal effect of his acts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`one who enters into a contract or performs some act while laboring under a mistake of material fact is entitled to have the transaction or the act set aside in a court of equity.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“it is generally recognized that a mistake as to the legal effect of a contract, though a mistake of law, will be treated as a mistake of material fact where the mistake is mutu al, or common to all parties to the transaction, and results in a written instrument which does not embody the “bargained-for” agreement of the parties.”
1 later decision 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.