Layman v. Binns’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
230 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 234 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Belvedere Condominium Unit Owners' Ass'n v. R.E. Roark Companies, Inc. (1993), 124 Ohio App. 3d 468 - Rogers v. Hill (1998)
230 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 213 Cal. App. 2d 729 - Lingsch v. Savage · 480 So. 2d 625 - Johnson v. Davis · Miles v. Perpetual Savings & Loan Co. · 76 Ill. App. 3d 638 - Posner v. Davis · 4 Ohio App. 3d 164 - Foust v. Valleybrook Realty 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 234 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The doctrine of caveat emptor precludes recovery in an action by the purchaser for a structural defect in real estate where (1) the condition complained of is open to observation or discoverable upon reasonable inspection, (2) the purchaser had the unimpeded opportunity to examine the premises, and (3) there is no fraud on the part of the vendor.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage“no just cause for complaint even though there are misstatements and misrepresentations by the [seller] not so reprehensible in nature as to constitute fraud.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“readily observable or discoverable through a purchaser's reasonable inspection.”
11 later decisions 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.