Williams v. Harvey’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A written instrument may be reformed where there is an allegation and proof of a mutual mistake, or of a mistake upon one side and fraud or inequitable conduct upon the other, but where a writing does not embrace the terms of the contract because of the omission of some provision, due to the mistake of one of the parties only, and the other is free from fraud or inequitable conduct, the instrument cannot be reformed so as to omit or embrace terms other than those stated, since to do .so would be to make a contract which the parties had never made.” Williams v. Harvey, 192 Ky. 684 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Brookshire v. Hughes