Hignight v. Blevins Implement Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1983
2 federal appellate · 10 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 Pate v. J. S. McWilliams Auto Co. · Spencer Lumber Co. v. Dover · Brown & Co. v. Bennett
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The written contract of sale provides that it is made without any express or implied warranties. In view of this provision it was incumbent upon the defendant to show that his assent to the contract was induced by fraud. Not only is there no evidence of fraud; even if there were such testimony the defendant has waived his right to complain. His proof is that the motor did not pérform properly for even a single day, yet he kept the machine and continued to make payments on the purchase price for eight months after signing the contract. His only reason for this delay is that it was not until eight months after his purchase that he noticed water seeping from the engine and concluded that the block was broken. But Nathan Crawley, his employee whose duty it was to operate and repair the motor, testified that he noticed this seepage on the day the motor was delivered, or the next day. The defendant is charged with knowledge acquired by his employee in the course of his duties and in circumstances in which the knowledge should have been reported to the master.” In the instant case, fraud is not alleged in the pleadings, nor does the proof reach that degree. However, as pointed out in Hignight, even if there were evidence of fraud, appellants have waived any right to complain. Admittedly, appellants' retained the machine through the fall of 1960, and in both 1959 and 1960, picked cotton with it. It is true that they complained about its performance, but they continued, over this lon”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Archer v. Bucy
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