Pyle v. Eastern Seed Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently November 1992 · most notably G-W-L, Inc. v. Robichaux (1982), Two Rivers Company v. Curtiss Breeding Service, Division of Searle Agriculture Inc., Defendant- Hi-Pro Feeds, Inc. (1980)
3 federal appellate · 33 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 Lumbrazo v. Woodruff · White, Ward & Erwin v. Hager · American Warehouse Co. v. Ray · Leonard Seed Co. v. Crary Canning Co. · Columbian Iron Works & Dry Dock Co. v. Douglas
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.
“Eastern Seed Co. gives no warranty, express or implied, as to description, purity, productivity, or any other matter of any seed we may send out, and we will not be in any way responsible for the crop.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Pyle contends that the failure of the seller to furnish him the variety of onion seed contracted to be delivered is a breach of the contract, and such breach sustains the judgment of the trial court. This contention is sound enough if the contract did not contain what is generally designated as a nonwarranty clause. The buyer and the seller were free to make whatever contract they desired, so long as its provisions were not illegal or immoral. They agreed that the seller gave no warranty, express or implied, as to description, purity or productivity, and would not be in any manner responsible for the crop. In other words, the buyer agreed to this provision of the contract and bought the seed knowing that the seller was protecting itself under the nonwarranty provision. It is firmly established that where parties have signed, and thereby entered into a written contract, they are bound by its provisions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Neither of the parties here are under guardianship or incompetent to contract. There is no claim that the contract signed was not the one agreed upon, or that both parties did not fully understand what they were agreeing to. Plaintiff [seed seller] plainly undertook to relieve itself from liability in case of intermixture, and defendant agreed that it should be relieved. It is not claimed that the contract is void, because contrary to public law or to public policy, and, if not, effect should be given to it.... If it be conceded that the contract is one-sided, it must also be conceded that the parties had a right to make a one-sided contract if they saw fit.”
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.