Ryan v. Progressive Grocery Stores, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 154 later decisions — most recently August 1996 · most notably Henningsen v. Bloomfield Motors, Inc. (1960), Escola v. Coca Cola Bottling Co. (1944)
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 115 state decisions — followed in 26 states
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 Dushane v. Benedict · Rinaldi v. . Mohican Co. · 3 E.H. Smith 137 - Carleton v. . Lombard, Ayres Co. · Ward v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. · Hoe v. . Sanborn
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 154 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Here the dealer had notice from the nature of the transaction that the bread was to be eaten. Knowledge that it was to be eaten was knowledge that the damage would be greater than the price. (Citations) For damages thus foreseen, the buyer has his remedy, whether the warranty is one of fitness or of merchantable quality.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Dealer as well as manufacturer or grower affirms as to anything he sells, if purchased by description, that it is of merchantable quality.”
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.