Webb v. Sprott’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2002 · most notably Springdale Gayfer's Store Co. v. DH Holmes Co., Ltd. (1967), American Liberty Ins. Co. of Birmingham v. Leonard (1959)
27 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 Grimsley v. First Ave. Coal & Lumber Co. · Hogan v. Scott · Parra v. Cooper · Ikelheimer v. Chapman's Adm'rs · Camper v. Rice
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The bill for reformation must not only aver that a mistake was made in the instrument as executed and delivered, but it must also be made to appear that there was a mutuality of mistake, for, in the absence of fraud or inequitable conduct, a unilateral mistake will not furnish ground for a reformation. * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[p]owers [of an executor], in collecting the debts constituting the assets of the estate, are just as broad as those of the deceased.”
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.