76 Ohio App. 3d 43 - Mason v. Swartz’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably GenCorp, Inc. v. American International Underwriters (1999), 177 Ohio App. 3d 121 - Amsbary v. Brumfield (2008)
6 federal appellate · 62 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 C. E. Morris Co. v. Foley Construction Co. · State v. Awan · Huffman v. Hair Surgeon, Inc. · Pitts v. Ohio Department of Transportation · State v. Grubb
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[r]eformation of an instrument is an equitable remedy whereby a court modifies the instrument, which, due to mutual mistake on the part of the original parties to the instrument, does not evince the actual intention of those parties.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Equity will permit the reformation of a written instrument not only as between the original parties but also as to parties in privity with them [such as the original parties' successors in interest].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Reformation of an instrument [such as a deed] is an equitable remedy whereby a court modifies the instrument which, due to a mutual mistake on the part of the original parties to the instrument, does not evince the actual intention of those parties. * * * [T]o correct the description of a deed on the ground of mutual mistake, the proof that both parties were mistaken as to what was being conveyed must be shown by clear and convincing evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.