Mathis v. Wendling’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2022
1 district · 19 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 Cordova v. Gosar · Hopper v. All Pet Animal Clinic, Inc. · True Oil Co. v. Sinclair Oil Corp. · Prudential Preferred Properties v. J and J Ventures, Inc. · Springer v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Wyoming
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A mutual mistake is one which is reciprocal and common to both parties with each party being under the same misconception as to the terms of the written instrument.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The essential elements of mutual mistake in a written instrument for which a court of competent jurisdiction may grant appropriate relief are that there was an antecedent agreement which the written instrument undertakes to evidence; that a mistake occurred in the drafting of the instrument and not in the antecedent agreement which it undertakes to evidence; and that in the absence of fraud or inequitable conduct on the part of one of the parties, the mistake was mutual.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This court first looks at whether the contract is clear and unambiguous, and if it is, we confine our review to the four corners of the document to determine the parties’ intent.... A contract is ambiguous if the agreement is obscure in its meaning because of indefiniteness of expression or because a double meaning is present.... In making such determination, this court considers the contract as a whole and reads each provision in light of all the others to find the plain meaning of the words.... This court will not consider extrinsic evidence to contradict the plain meaning of an unambiguous contract, and the intent of the parties, as stated in their agreement, must be given effect...”
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.