Smith v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
12 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2018
12 district · 9 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 Henningsen v. Bloomfield Motors, Inc. · 71 Ill. 2d 583 - Frank v. Teachers Insurance & Annuity Ass'n of America · Lynx, Inc. v. Ordnance Products, Inc. · 56 Ill. 2d 548 - Berry v. G. D. Searle & Co. · Farmers State Bank v. Cooper
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen goods are acquired for the ordinary purposes for which such goods are generally used, no implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose arises. A use for ordinary purposes falls within the concept of merchantability.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he warranty of fitness for a particular purpose is narrower, more specific, and more precise.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“14. That Shimano American, Inc., Murray Ohio Manufacturing Co. and Walmart Stores, Inc., at the time of contracting for sale, had reason to know of any particular purpose for which the bicycle was required; that the buyer is relying on the seller’s skill or judgment to select or furnish suitable bicycles, and that there is an implied warranty that the bicycle shall be fit for the purpose. Shimano American, Inc., Murray Ohio Manufacturing Co. and Walmart Stores, Inc. breached this warranty and are liable to Plaintiff who was reasonably be (sic) expected to use, consume, or be affected by the bicycle and who is injured as a result.”
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.