Mendenhall v. Vandeventer’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently December 1994 · most notably Herrera v. C & R PAVING COMPANY (1963), Hendren v. Allstate Insurance (1983)
2 federal appellate · 41 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 Moruzzi v. Federal Life & Casualty Co. · Farrington v. Harlem Savings Bank · Chicago & N. W. Ry. Co. v. Wilcox · Bowie v. Sorrell · Tocci v. Albuquerque & Cerrillos Coal Co.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““So far as releases from personal injury claims are concerned, it is generally held that ‘where the parties are regarded as having contracted with reference to future possibilities, and there is no fraud or other inequitable conduct by the release [re-leasee],’ a release ‘cannot be avoided on the ground of mistake merely because the injuries prove more serious than the releasor at the time of executing the release believed them to be.’ Pom.Eq. Jur., 5th Ed., § 871d. See also Annotation in 48 A.L.R. at page 1464. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Loos““Separate Triáis. The court, in furtherance of convenience or to avoid prejudice, or when separate trials will be conducive to expedition and economy, may order a separate trial of any claim, cross-claim, counterclaim, or third-party claim, or of any separate issue or of any number of claims, cross-claims, counterclaims, third-party claims, or issues, always preserving the right of trial by jury given to any party as a constitutional right.””
1 later decision 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.