Shippen v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
122 U.S. 575 · 1887
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 9 district · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2008 · most notably 12 Cal. 2d 501 - Mary Pickford Co. v. Bayly Bros., Inc. (1939), 121 W. Va. 115 - Webb v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. (1939)
30 federal appellate · 9 district · 65 state decisions — followed in 21 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 Dushane v. Benedict · Schuchardt v. Allens · Young & Otis v. Covell · Cook v. Moseley
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ny affirmation of the quality or condition of the thing sold, (not uttered as matter of opinion or belief,) made by the seller at the time of sale, for the purpose of assuring the buyer of the truth of the fact affirmed, and inducing him to make the purchase; if so received and relied on by the purchaser, is an express warranty.”
4 later decisions 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.