3 Ariz. App. 232 - Apolito v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably Darner Motor Sales, Inc. v. Universal Underwriters Insurance (1984), Kilduff v. Adams, Inc. (1991)
43 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 Moore v. Meyers · In Re McDonnell's Estate · Davis v. Weber · Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Ass'n v. Ferrell · 1 Ariz. App. 244 - Higgins v. Kittleson
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled in this jurisdiction that a person’s negligence in failing to read a document which he was requested to sign and which he had never seen before precludes recovery on the basis of fraud, there being no right to rely on the representations concerning the document.” Apolito v. Johnson, 3 Ariz.App. 232, 236 , 413 P.2d 291 (1966).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We may state it as a general rule when parties competent to contract have come together and reduced to writing the terms and conditions of their agreement, the law protects and guards with great caution the written memorial of their contract thus made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“representations by one layman to another as to the meaning or legal effect of the terms of a written agreement.”
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.