Fabbro v. Reese’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 1997
3 federal appellate · 11 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 Harrell v. Nash · Whittaker v. White · Badgett v. Oklahoma Life Ins. Co. · Crabb v. Chisum · Prudential Fire Ins. Co. v. Stanley
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. In an action for the reformation of a deed or contract of sale, parol evidence is admissible to show the parties’ intent and mutual mistake. “2. Evidence to sustain a judgment reforming a written contract must be clear, unequivocal, and decisive, but this does not mean that it must be un-contradicted; and the judgment of the trial court in such an action, where the evidence is conflicting, should be given weight, and should be affirmed on appeal, unless the appellate court is satisfied that the standard of proof required has not been met and the conclusion reached is wrong.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nelson v. Daugherty
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.