Ivinson v. Hutton’s Empirical Analysis
98 U.S. 79 · 1878
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 5 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2017 · most notably Zartman v. First National Bank (1910), Columbian Nat. Life Ins. v. Black (1929)
24 federal appellate · 5 district · 9 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 Hunt v. Rousmanier's Administrators
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Courts of equity have jurisdiction * * *. If the instrument was executed in ignorance or mistake of facts material to its operation, the error may be corrected, or the erroneous transaction may be rescinded. * * * Power to reform written contracts for fraud or mistake is everywhere conceded to courts of equity, and it is equally, clear that it is a power which cannot be exercised by common-law courts. Hearne v. Insurance Co., 20 Wall. 490 .””
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.