Cheramie v. Stiles’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 1988 · most notably Johnson v. Wilson (1960), Carpenter v. Skinner (1954)
42 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 Pan American Production Co. v. Robichaux · Lee v. Perkins · Calhoun v. Teal · Laborde v. Aymond
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(4) The existence of an error of fact proceeding from ignorance of what really exists or the mistaken belief in the existence of facts which are the principal cause of and bear upon the motive for the yielding of consent to an agreement are sufficient grounds to set aside a contract. Calhoun v. Teal, 106 La. 47 , 30 So. 288 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(2) Moreover, the contract cannot be given effect because there was an error of fact as to the principal cause and motive for making the contract. The contract was entered into under the mistaken belief that the delay rentals had not been paid and that the lease could be cancelled because of this breach. Under the provisions of Articles 1819, 1821 and 1823, revised Civil Code, the contract must fall.”
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.