Lane v. Mathews’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably Darner Motor Sales, Inc. v. Universal Underwriters Insurance (1984), Bohmfalk v. Vaughan (1960)
25 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 In Re McDonnell's Estate · Batty v. Arizona State Dental Board · Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Ass'n v. Ferrell · 19 Cal. 2d 463 - Metropolitan Water District v. Adams · Haynie v. Taylor
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * no legal basis for1 the lower court’s refusal to submit to the jury an interrogatory submitted by appellants directly raising the question of what the true agreement was between the parties. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“accepted with provisions at variance with the true agreement may not set up the other party's negligence in failing to read the instrument. * * *”
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.