Johnson v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Where a party enters into a contract under a clear bona fide mistake, ignorance or forgetfulness of facts material thereto, he may, on that account, avoid or rescind such contract, provided the rights of innocent third parties will not be prejudiced by such avoidance. And, in such case, it is not material to inquire whether such party might not, by reasonable diligence, have ascertained correctly the facts which he had forgotten, or in regard to which he was so mistaken or in ignorance as aforesaid.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. DeKarske v. Woelffer