Vary v. Shea’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2005
2 federal appellate · 14 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.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The evidence of mistake in a written contract, on which the court should act in giving relief, ought to be so clear as to establish the fact beyond cavil. Especially should this be the case when the party setting up the mistake has had the contract prepared by his own professional advisor and apparently with care and deliberation.” Vary v. Shea, 36 Mich. 388 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Long v. Bibbler
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.