Robert Langston, Ltd. v. McQuarrie’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2018
13 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 Kimball v. Campbell · 17 Utah 2d 80 - FMA Financial Corporation v. BUILD, INC · Earven v. Smith · Horton v. Horton · Angelos v. First Interstate Bank of Utah
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mutual mistake of fact makes a contract voidable and is a basis for equitable rescission.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[albsent a contractual provision which conditions the right to a commission on the performance or part performance of the buyer, the broker is not an insurer of the subsequent performance of the contract and is not deprived of his right to a commission by the failure or refusal”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A mutual mistake occurs when both parties, at the time of contracting, share a misconception about a basic assumption or vital fact upon which they based their bargain.”
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.