McKay v. . Simpson’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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

1. “Where an instrument is intended to carry an agreement into execution, but, by reason of a mistake, either of fact or of law , does not fulfill that intention, equity corrects the mistake.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Womack v. . Eacker