In re McFarlin’s Empirical Analysis

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11 state decisions

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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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is a general rule that a mistake of law pure and simple is not adequate ground for relief. But there are well-defined exceptions to this rule. Without undertaking to discuss the many phases of the question, it seems that a mistake by a party as to' his antecedent existing legal right, as distinguished from a mistake as to the legal import of the act done,, is one which should be and is recognized as a ground for equitable relief from the consequences of such mistake, where the mistake can be rectified without injury to the rights of others.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Garrett v. Reid-Cashion Land & Cattle Co. · 246 Ill. App. 496 - Hanson v. Clark

2. ““Where an election is made under a misapprehension of the law as to her right of dower, even although the mistake resulted from the erroneous advice of her counsel, a widow so electing to take the provision made by law in lieu of that made for her under her deceased husband’s will may be allowed to retract her election, where no rights of third persons who would be injured by a revocation have intervened.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 246 Ill. App. 496 - Hanson v. Clark