174 Pa. Super. 90 - Knapp v. Willys-Ardmore, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently February 1997 · most notably Henningsen v. Bloomfield Motors, Inc. (1960), Greco v. Bucciconi Engineering Co. (1969)
9 federal appellate · 20 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 Ebbert v. Philadelphia Electric Co. · Gallivan v. Wark Co. · Loch Et Ux. v. Confair Et Ux. · Tinius Olsen Testing MacHine Co. v. Wolf Co. · Strobel v. Park
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.
““ * * * The determinative questions are (1) whether there was an implied warranty under which appellants may be held liable for the loss; and (2) whether the evidence supports the finding that the fire was caused by loose fuel line fittings. “Implied Warranty. “The answer to the first question is governed by application of the Uniform Sales Act. Section 29-1-45 A.C.L.A. 1949 provides in part that— “ ‘(2) Where the goods are bought by description from a seller who deals in goods of that description (whether he be the grower or manufacturer or not), there is an implied warranty that the goods shall be of merchantable quality.’ “The implied warranty of merchantable quality includes a warranty that goods are reasonably fit for the ordinary purposes for which they are used. A mobile-home trailer is ordinarily used for the purpose of family living. It is not reasonably fit for that purpose when loose connections between the fuel line and an oil burning furnace permit oil to leak out and accumulate in the vicinity of the furnace and create a fire hazard. A trailer that is sold with such a defect is not of ‘merchantable quality’, within the meaning of the statute. “But before an implied warranty can arise, the goods must have been ‘bought by description from a seller who deals in goods of that description.’ That was done here. The sales contract executed by Willman and appellants specified that he was purchasing a ‘55 x 10' 2 Bedroom Mobilehome, Great Lakes Make, SA-FK-Winthrop Model”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Vinyard v. Duck · George v. Willman““In the case of a contract to sell or a sale of a specified article under its patent or other trade name, there is no implied warranty as to its fitness for any particular purpose.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. George v. Willman
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.