Ward v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2016
2 federal appellate · 11 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 City of Norfolk v. Bennett · Gibbs v. Price · Larchmont Properties, Inc. v. Cooperman · Boone v. Scott
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he equitable remedy of reformation provides relief against a mistake of fact in a written instrument in only two instances. The first is where the mistake is mutual, that is, where both parties sign an instrument mistakenly believing it reflects their antecedent bargain. The second is where “there is mistake on the part of [only] one party,” that is, the mistake is unilateral, but it is accompanied by “misrepresentation and fraud . perpetrated by the other.””
2 later decisions 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.