Taylor v. Merrill’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 1979 · most notably Anderson v. McRae (1973), Matheson v. C-B Live Stock Co. (1915)
1 federal appellate · 34 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This principle of allowing extraneous proof of a different or additional consideration is not founded upon any right, such as is enforced in courts of equity, to have an instrument reformed when, through fraud, accident, or mistake, it does not state truly the contract of the parties. It is a common-law rule, and enforced in courts having common-law jurisdiction. In the present case, we think no allegation of fraud, accident, or mistake was necessary to be made.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Faville v. Robinson
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.