Lipham v. Shamblee’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2004 · most notably National Union Fire Ins. Co. v. Lassetter (1932), Webb v. Sprott (1932)
32 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 Larkins v. Biddle · Holland Blow Stave Co. v. Barclay · Clark v. Hart
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the exercise of this jurisdiction, it is well understood that the court proceeds with utmost caution, as it involves the invasion of a sanitary rule of evidence, and that, to authorize the reformation of a contract which has been reduced to writing and signed, the proof must be clear, exact, and satisfactory, to the effect that the writing does not express the intention of the parties and further what, in fact, the parties had intended the writing should contain. If the proof is uncertain in any material, respect, it will be held insufficient.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fowler v. Stacey
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.