Prince v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 1980
20 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 Wyatt v. North Carolina Equipment Company · Simpson v. American Oil Co. · Tyson Ex Rel. Tyson v. Long Manufacturing Co. · Loch v. Confair · Morefield v. . Lackey
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because of the danger to life and health, the manufacturer and packer of foods and the bottler of beverages intended for human consumption, by offering them for sale, impliedly warrant the fitness of their products for such use. As pointed out, however, the warranty extends no further than the parties to the contract of sale.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In some of the cases liability on the basis of breach of implied warranty and for negligence seem to shade into each other.”
1 later decision 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.