Andreae v. Redfield’s Empirical Analysis
98 U.S. 225 · 1878
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1961 · most notably Campbell v. City of Haverhill (1895), Sage v. United States (1919)
10 federal appellate · 17 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Antoine Michoud v. Peronne Bernardine Girod · Asa Green v. The Lessee of Henry Neal · Assessors v. Osbornes · Justices v. Murray · Shapley v. . Abbott
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts of equity ** may grant relief against acts and contracts executed under mistake or in ignorance of material facts; but it is otherwise where a party wishes to avoid his act or deed on the ground he was ignorant of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Simmons v. Friday
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.