Cookingham v. Dusa’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 1952
15 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 Boothby v. Scales · Kingsley v. Wallis · Holbrook v. Burt
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a general proposition that, on a sale of a personal chattel with a warranty, in case the chattel turns out to be not of the kind or quality represented, the purchaser may have one of the two remedies. He may rescind the contract and return the property. The effect of such action is to place the parties in the same condition in which they were before the purchase; and whatever has been paid or delivered by either is to be returned, and it or its value may be recovered in an action therefor. This is one remedy. The other is, that the purchaser may affirm the contract, retain the property, and recover damages from the vendor for the breach of his warranty.” (p. 230.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Holt v. Richardson
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.