Lewis v. Mobil Oil Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
438 F.2d 500 · 1971
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently September 2006 · most notably Bonebrake v. Cox (1974), 86 Ill. App. 3d 980 - Frank's Maintenance & Engineering, Inc. v. C. A. Rorerts Co. (1980)
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 17 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 63 Cal. 2d 9 - Seely v. White Motor Co. · Wawak v. Stewart · Keystone Diesel E. Co., Inc. v. Irwin · LA Green Seed Company of Arkansas v. Williams
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the seller at the time of contracting has reason to know any particular purpose for which the goods are required and that the buyer is relying on the seller’s skill or judgment to select or furnish suitable goods, there is unless excluded or modified under the next section an implied warranty that the goods shall be fit for such purpose.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) any loss resulting from general or particular requirements and needs of which the seller at the time of contracting had reason to know and which could not reasonably be prevented by cover or otherwise....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The measure of damages for breach of warranty is the difference at the time and place of acceptance between the value of the goods accepted and the value they would have had if they had been as warranted, unless special circumstances show proximate damages of a different amount.”
2 later decisions 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.