Charter Co. v. Mercante’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 1984
6 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 Fitzmorris v. Kelly · J. B. Beaird Co. v. Burris Bros. · Coco v. MacK Motor Truck Corp. · Chaignaud v. Baden · 171 So. 2d 678 - Hanna Investments, Inc. v. Stovall
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Art. 2520. Redhibition, definition Art. 2520. Redhibition is the avoidance of a sale on account of some vice or defect in the thing sold, which renders it either absolutely useless, or its use so inconvenient and imperfect, that it must be supposed that the buyer would not have purchased it, had he known of the vice.””
2 later decisions 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.