Holt v. Mann’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
3 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably Bianchi v. Denholm & McKay Co. (1939), Schuler v. Union News Co. (1936)
3 district · 54 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Rinaldi v. . Mohican Co. · Weiner v. D. A. Schulte, Inc. · Ward v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. · Gearing v. Berkson · Farrell v. Manhattan Market 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the buyer, expressly or by implication, makes known to the seller the particular purpose for which the goods are required, and it appears that the buyer relies on the seller’s skill or judgment, whether he be the grower or manufacturer or not, there is an implied warranty that the goods shall be reasonably fit for such purpose.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Theall v. Denenberg
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.