Kimberly, Inc. v. Hays’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably Continental Potash, Inc. v. Freeport-McMoran, Inc. (1993), Shaeffer v. Kelton (1980)
40 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 Morris v. Merchant · Wright v. Brem · Davies v. Boyd · Hopkins v. Martinez · Springer Corporation v. Kirkeby-Natus
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f one party at the time of the execution of a written instrument knows not only that the writing does not accurately express the intention of the other party as to the terms to be embodied therein, but knows what that intention is, the latter can have the writing reformed so that it will express that intention.”
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.