Morgan v. Roberts’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. “'For an instrument to be reformed, there must have been a meeting of the minds, and a mutual mistake in executing it that does not express the common intent, or a mistake on the part of one, and conduct on the part of the other so that it would be inequitable to deny a mutual mistake.'”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 423 So. 2d 1354 - Miller v. Davis · 547 So. 2d 432 - Sheffield v. Buxton

2. “It is expressly understood that 1/4 oil, gas and other mineral interest is reserved from this conveyance.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 434 So. 2d 738 - Morgan v. Roberts