Waller v. Mastin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 state decisions

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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The evidence fully, clearly, and satisfactorily established that the mistake in drawing the conveyance was that of the scrivener, and the parties thereto, through ignorance and misapprehension as to the legal effect of the conveyance so drawn for them, executed a different conveyance from that intended and which the scrivener was instructed to draw; and that said writing did not express the true, real intent and agreement of the parties to the conveyance made at the time of its execution and delivery thereof.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Reynolds v. Scott