Mangin v. Jorgens’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1981
8 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 Merrill v. Harang · Lillis v. Anderson · Reimann Const. Co. v. Upton · Peterson v. Peralta · Chas. A. Kaufman Co. v. Gillman
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The judge of the lower court found in plaintiff's favor on the authority of Article 2769 of the Civil Code [citation of authorities]. "In the last cited case, we had occasion to review all of the prior jurisprudence wherein Article 2769 had been considered and interpreted. We said: `The foregoing article has been construed by the courts to mean that, where a contractor sues on a building contract and it is shown that the work delivered is defective or unfinished, the contractor is, nonetheless, entitled to recover the contract price if the defendant fails to establish the damages he has sustained by reason of the contractor's partial default. The remedy of the owner in such cases is for a reduction in the price to an amount necessary to perfect or complete the work according to the terms of the contract.' "Counsel for plaintiff while recognizing the force of the foregoing pronouncements, maintains that they are inapplicable as the contract sued upon is not a building contract but one for the sale of the respective floor furnaces. Accordingly, he insists that the case is governed by Article 2520 et seq. of the Civil Code, which provides for the redhibitory action in sales contracts where the thing sold contains vices or defects which render 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 * * * "We cannot agree with counsel. The contract in question did not involv”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The judge of the lower court found in plaintiff's favor on the authority of Article 2769 of the Civil Code [citation of authorities].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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