Vakas v. Manuel’s Empirical Analysis
316 F.2d 369 · 1963
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2004 · most notably Clayman v. Goodman Properties, Inc. (1973), Appalachian Power Co. v. Federal Power Commission (1976)
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Murray v. Gadsden · Hawkins v. Fradkin · Sanders v. Monroe · Maryland Casualty Co. v. Morris Oil Corp.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when reformation is sought, the purpose of which is to make a mistaken writing conform to antecedent expressions on which the parties agreed”) (footnote omitted); Unsinn v. Wilson, 109 U.S.App.D.C. 193, 196 , 285 F.2d 273, 276 (1960) (with reformation,”
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.