Rawson v. Brosnan’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 19 state decisions

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.

1. “Primarily, the right to reform a contract belongs to the original parties thereto. The recognized extension under the Code in favor of those in privity with the original contractors does not mean that the terms of a contract can be altered and reformed by one who does not claim as a successor under the contract sought to be reformed....”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bank of Am., N.A. v. Adams (In re Adams) · Florida International Indemnity Co. v. City of Metter

2. ““* * * jn its broadest sense privity ‘denotes mutual or successive relationship to the same right of property’ * * *. Persons are in privity, not with property, but with persons as related to the same right in the same property.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 1 Ohio App. 2d 365 - Berardi v. Ohio Turnpike Comm. · Bank of Am., N.A. v. Adams (In re Adams)

3. “: If A's conveyance to B involves a mutual mistake of fact, and subsequently B conveys to C, then C, being a successor to the same right in the same property, is entitled to reformation as against A.... But if A successively conveys separate, even adverse, rights in the same property to both B and C, C does not become the successor of A and stand in his shoes with respect to a different property right previously conveyed, not to him, but to B, the adverse claimant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bank of Am., N.A. v. Adams (In re Adams)