Tomas v. Vaughn’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2006
20 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 California Trust Co. v. Cohn · 45 Cal. App. 2d 46 - Sonnicksen v. Sonnicksen · Muchenberger v. City of Santa Monica · 20 Cal. App. 2d 170 - Union Oil Co. v. Reconstruction Oil Co. · Sullivan v. Moorhead
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he fact that the party seeking relief has read the instrument and knows its contents does not prevent a court from finding that it was executed under a mistake.”
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.