Reed v. . Randall’s Empirical Analysis
1864
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1982 · most notably Pierson v. . Crooks (1889), Dewey v. West Fairmont Gas Coal Co. (1887)
3 federal appellate · 84 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Muller v. . Eno · Howard & Ryckman v. Hoey · Sprague v. Blake
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f the thing purchased is found, on examination, to be unsound, or not to answer the order given for it, [the vendee] must immediately return it to the vendor, or give him notice to take it back, and thereby rescind the contract, or he will be presumed to have acquiesced in its quality. He cannot accept the delivery of the property, under the contract, retain it, after an opportunity of ascertaining its quality, and recover damages, if it be not of the quality or description called for by such contract.... Reed v. Randall, 29 N.Y. 358, 362-63 (1864) (emphasis ours). * * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The principle that, when the contract of sale is executory, the remedy of the purchaser to recover damages, on the ground that the article furnished does not correspond with the contract, will not survive an acceptance and retention of the property, after opportunity to ascertain the defect, without notifying the vendor, is well supported by authority.””
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.