Palmer v. Cully’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2020
3 federal appellate · 16 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 United States v. William Rabinowich · Washington v. Miller · Cartwright v. McGown · Rual Taylor v. Mrs Allie Parker · Hurd v. Hall
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There being no undue influence, misrepresentation, or fraud, and no mistake of fact inducing Or in any way connected with the execution or delivery of the deed of June 3, 1912, by plaintiff to Thomas Palmer, but merely a mistaken view of the law as to plaintiff’s rights under her known status, it is clear that under the settled doctrine in this jurisdiction she is not entitled to the relief she seeks, for the reason that such mistake of law does not constitute grounds for rescission or the cancellation of said deed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Sawyer v. Bahnsen““A mistake of law happens when a party, having full knowledge of the facts, comes to an erroneous conclusion as to their legal effect. It is a mistaken opinion or inference arising from an imperfect or incorrect exercise of the judgment upon the facts as they really are.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Barnett v. Douglas
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.