Kelley v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 172 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 181 later decisions — most recently February 1987 · most notably Alexander v. Hagedorn (1950), Miles v. Martin (1959)
5 federal appellate · 172 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.
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 181 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Against a mistake of both parties, by which, in the effort to reduce the agreement which they had made to writing, they mistake its terms so that the writing does not represent the real contract, equity will grant relief.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilkins v. Dagle
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.