Poole Engineering & MacHine Co. v. Swindell’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 1977
2 federal appellate · 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 Kelly v. Huber Baking Co. · Mayor of Baltimore v. O'Conor · White Automobile Co. v. Dorsey · Griffith v. Benzinger · Singer Construction Co. v. Goldsborough
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But section 4 of the act deals exclusively with the relation of the statute of frauds to the law of sales, and the language of the exception is expressly limited to the section in which it occurs, and does not therefore limit or qualify the language of any other section, although the fact that it was thought necessary does carry the implication that without it the section would have included ‘future goods,’ whether made especially for the buyer, or whether suitable for sale in the ordinary course of the seller’s business. No such qualification is found in sections 5 or 76 of the act, and it must be assumed that those sections were intended to cover sales of goods ‘to be manufactured * * * by the seller after the making of the contract of sale,’ whether such goods were or were not manufactured especially for the buyer and whether they were or were not suitable for sale to others in the ordinary course of the seller’s business.””
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.