Cox v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2018
12 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 Lewis v. Foy · DeLong v. Cobb · McCullough v. Kirby · Beckwith v. Peterson · Long v. Walls
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A 'mutual mistake' in an action for reformation means one in which both parties had agreed on the terms of the contract, but by mistake of the scrivener the true terms of the agreement were not set forth.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. Comm'r · Fox v. Washburn“by clear, unequivocal and decisive evidence that both [parties to the security deed] made a mutual mistake in preparation of the instrument and that the [bank] was not so negligent in executing the instrument or discovering any mistake appearing therein as to be estopped to ask for reformation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“clear, unequivocal, and decisive evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. Comm'r
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.