Snelling v. Merritt’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
2 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably Lopinto v. Haines (1981), Geremia v. Boyarsky (1928)
2 district · 33 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 Moffett, Hodgkins & Clarke Co. v. Rochester · Waterman v. A. & W. Sprague Manufacturing Co. · Bishop v. Clay Fire & Marine Insurance
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.
“To warrant . . . reformation . . . on the ground of mutual mistake, the mistake must have been common to both parties, and it must appear that . . . . both have done what neither intended, and the evidence should be clear, substantial, and convincing as to both those facts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The mistake of one only of the parties inducing him to sign a contract which, but for the mistake, he would not have entered into, may be a ground in some cases for cancelling the contract, but it cannot be a ground for a reformation of it.”
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.