Laird v. Laird’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Applied Genetics International, Inc. v. First Affiliated Securities, Inc. (1990), Cordova v. Gosar (1986)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 36 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 Johnson v. Soulis · Estate of Johnson v. Johnson · Twing v. Schott · Sanger v. Yellow Cab Company, Inc. · Meuse-Rhine-Ijssel Cattle Breeders of Canada Ltd. v. Y-Tex Corp.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule is that one who signs a paper, without reading it, if he is able to read and understand, is guilty of such negligence in failing to inform himself of its nature that he cannot be relieved from the obligation contained in the paper thus signed, unless there was something more than mere reliance upon the statements of another as to its contents. * * *”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“One who signs a contract generally cannot avoid it on the ground that he did not attend to its terms, or did not read it, or supposed that it was different in its terms, or that he took someone's word as to what it contained.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Against the backdrop of a motion for summary judgment, fraud must be demonstrated in a clear and convincing manner.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.