Lott v. Kaiser’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 2007 · most notably Walker v. Ames (1921), Henry S. Miller Company v. Evans (1970)
44 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.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““as an erroneous mental condition, conception or conviction, induced by ignorance, misapprehension or misunderstanding of the truth, but without negligence, and resulting in some-act or omission done or suffered erroneously by one or both the parties to a transaction, but without its erroneous character being intended or known at the time.” Lott v. Kaiser, 61 Tex. 665 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ashley v. Holland
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.