Flaccomio v. Eysink’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Jacob E. Decker & Sons, Inc. v. Capps (1942), Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc. v. Balbos (1992)
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 35 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 Thomas v. . Winchester · Norton v. Sewall · Roberts v. Anheuser Busch Brewing Ass'n · Brown v. Marshall · State v. M. Fox & Son
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the buyer expressly or by implication makes known to the seller the particular purpose for which the goods are required and it appears that the buyer relies on the seller’s skill or judgment, (whether he be the grower or manufacturer or not), there is an implied warranty that the goods shall be reasonably fit for such purpose.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the violation of a statute... is itself sufficient to prove such a breach of duty as will sustain a private action for negligence, ... and that the true rule in such cases is that the violation is presumptive evidence of negligence.”
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.