Feinstein v. Daniel Reeves, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 1967
5 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 Rinaldi v. . Mohican Co.
Most-quoted passages
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““The second alleged cause of action of each plaintiff , while sounded in negligence, is really based upon the Agricultural and Markets Law of the State of New York (Consol. Laws, p. 69). This law (Sec. 198 et seq.) forbids the sale of adulterated foods and the statute states that any food is adulterated which shall consist of any portion of a diseased animal or of an animal unfit for food. Plaintiffs contend that pork infected with live trichinae is both ‘unfit for food’ and the ‘product of a diseased animal’ within the meaning of the law; and that any person selling the same for food even in an uncooked state, is liable.” “When this law was passed, the makers well knew that the parasite trichinae was present in considerable percentage of otherwise healthy hogs; that its presence could not be detected by any known practical method of inspection; that pork so infected was wholesome when cooked; that the United States and State governments made no attempt to inspect for trichinae and made no restriction against its sale for food when cooked. In view of these facts I cannot hold that it is the intent of the statute to include hogs infected with trichinae under the classifications ‘diseased •animals’ or ‘unfit for food.’””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The evidence clearly shows that trichinae infected pork is-wholesome and fit for food when properly cooked. Pork chops are-not sold to be eaten in the raw state. The warranty of wholesomeness is, not that the pork is free from trichinae, but rather that it is fit for food when properly cooked.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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