Sponseller v. Kimball’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2016
4 federal appellate · 5 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 Horvath v. National Mortgage Co. · Sanborn v. Sanborn · Weidner v. Northway Motor & Manfg. Co. · Warren v. Federal Life Insurance · Smith v. Osborn
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.
“The stability of written instruments demands that a person who executes one shall know its contents or be chargeable with such knowledge. If he cannot read, he should have a reliable person read it to him. His failure to do so is negligence which estops him from voiding the instrument on the ground that he was ignorant of its contents, in the absence of circumstances fairly excusing his failure to inform himself. 6 R.C.L. pp. 624, 625; Warren v. Federal Life Ins. Co., 198 Mich. 342 [ 164 N.W. 449 ]: Weidner v. Northway Motor, etc., Co., 205 Mich. 583 [ 172 N.W. 574 ].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“executed not merely one but four instruments, all of which were read to her and whose purpose she understood.”
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.