Reech v. Coco’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 1992 · most notably 359 So. 2d 607 - Alexander v. Burroughs Corp. (1978), 281 So. 2d 112 - Prince v. Paretti Pontiac Company, Inc. (1973)
38 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 Crawford v. Abbott Automobile Co., Ltd. · Ehrlich v. Roby Motors Co. · Savoie v. Snell · Jackson v. Breard Motor Co. · Poor v. Hemenway
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * A machine or item of equipment that will not meet the needs of the owner and the purpose for which it was purchased and which will not run or runs intermittently or imperfectly and which requires the frequent attention of a mechanic to keep it going is an abomination to the owner."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"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."”
3 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.