Hodges v. . Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently August 1969
3 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 Fields v. . Brown · Unitype Co. v. . Ashcraft · Lewis v. W. D. Rountree & Co. · Robertson v. Halton · Allen v. Truesdell
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendant had a right to have the question whether the force and effect of the affirmation of the plaintiff in regard to the quality of the fertilizer did not constitute a warranty of the quality. If the vendor represents an article as possessing a value which upon proof it does not possess, he is liable as on a warranty, express or implied, although he may not have known such an affirmation to be false, if such representation was intended, not as a mere expression of opinion, but the positive assertion of a fact upon which the purchaser acts; and this is a question for the jury. Thompson v. Tate , 5 N.C. 97 ; Inge v. Bond , 10 N.C. 101 ; Foggart v. Blackweller , 26 N.C. 230 ; Bell v. Jeffreys , 35 N.C. 356 ; Henson v. King , 48 N.C. 419 ; Lewis v. Rountree , 78 N.C. 323 ; Baum v. Stevens , 24 N.C. 411 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.