Hoe v. . Sanborn’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 2 district · 69 state decisions

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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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “a It appears to me to be a distinction well founded, both in reason and on authority, that if a party purchases an article upon his own judgment, he cannot afterwards hold the vendor responsible, on the ground that the article turns out to be unfit for the purpose for which it was required ; but if he relies upon the judgment of the seller, and informs him of the use to which the article is to be applied, it seems to me the transaction carries with it an implied warranty that the thing furnished shall be fit and proper for the purpose for which it was designed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kellogg Bridge Co. v. Hamilton

2. ““ W here one sells an article of his own manufacture which has a defect produced by the manufacturing process itself, the seller must be presumed to have had knowledge of such defect, and must be holden, therefore, upon the most obvious principles of equity and justice — unless he informs the purchaser of the defect —to indemnify him against it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kellogg Bridge Co. v. Hamilton