Langbein v. Comerford’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2018
1 federal appellate · 16 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 United States Rubber Products, Inc. v. Clark · Maryland Casualty Company v. Krasnek · Boole v. Florida Power & Light Co. · De Witt v. Miami Transit Company · 112 So. 2d 280 - O'NEILL v. Broadview, Inc.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Florida case law supports the proposition that relief will be granted for unilateral mistake where the mistake goes to the substance of the agreement, is not the result of a lack of due care, and where the other party has not relied upon the mistake to his detriment.”
2 later decisions 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.