Mathy v. Mathy’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 1978
4 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 Weber v. Nedin · Fries v. Kracklauer
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The plaintiffs ask in an amended complaint for reformation of the original deed on the ground of mistake. But there is no evidence of any mistake in the drafting of it. None of the parties to the instrument testified to any mistake. . . . The rights of the parties must be left to rest on the construction given to the deed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Heinemann v. Rosier“". . . the situation of the parties when the instrument was drawn may be considered and the instrument must be viewed in the light of the existing circumstances . . . ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.