Mitchell v. Martindill’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1974
6 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 Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Bush · Cook v. Cave · Gailey v. Ricketts · Sewell v. Umsted · Broderick v. McRae Box Co.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The authorities all require that the parol evidence of the mistake, and of the alleged modification, must be most clear and convincing, ... or else the mistake must be admitted by the opposite party; the resulting proof must be established beyond a reasonable doubt. Courts of equity do not grant the high remedy of reformation upon a probability, nor even upon a mere preponderance of the evidence, but only upon a certainty of the error.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mizell v. Carter““The written instrument must be considered as containing the true agreement between the parties, and as furnishing better evidence than any which can be supplied by parol. ...””
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.