Bona v. Graefe’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 2005 · most notably Volkswagen of America, Inc. v. Young (1974), 173 Ind. App. 682 - Thompson Farms v. CORNO FEED PRODUCTS, ETC. (1977)
2 district · 25 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 2 Cal. 3d 245 - Price v. Shell Oil Co. · Cintrone v. Hertz Truck Leasing & Rental Service · Myers v. Montgomery Ward & Co. · 79 Wash. 2d 198 - Baker v. CITY SEATTLE · Speyer, Inc. v. Humble Oil & Refining Co.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One who leases a chattel as safe for immediate use is subject to liability to those whom he should expect to use the chattel, or to be endangered by its probable use, for physical harm caused by its use in a manner for which, and by a person for whose use, it is leased, if the lessor fails to exercise reasonable care to make it safe for stich use or to disclose its actual condition to those who may be expected to use it. [ 264 Md. at 78 , 285 A.2d at 611 ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Although this section [dealing with express warranties] is limited in its scope and direct purpose to warranties made by the seller to the buyer as part of a contract for sale, the warranty sections of this Subtitle are not designed in any way to disturb those lines of case law growth which have recognized that warranties need not be confined either to sales contracts or to the direct parties to such a contract." (Our emphasis).”
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.