Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Lea’s Empirical Analysis
198 F.2d 1012 · 1952
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2019
8 federal appellate · 2 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 Walling v. Jacksonville Paper Co. · American Savings Life Insurance v. Riplinger · Adams & Sullivan v. Sengel · Willing v. Binenstock · Prestonsburg Superior Oil Gas Co. v. Vance
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the settled law in Kentucky that one who signs a contract is presumed to know its contents, and that if he has an opportunity to read the contract which he signs he is bound by its provisions, unless he is misled as to the nature of the writing which he signs or his signature has been obtained by fraud.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where any right, duty or liability would arise under a contract to sell or a sale by implication of law, it may be negatived or varied by express agreement. * *”
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.