Ucc v. P Buettner’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2013
1 district · 3 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 Nowak v. Trezevant · Beale · Carlson v. General Motors Corp. · 591 F. Supp. 552 - Goodbar v. Whitehead Bros. · Brockett v. Harrell Bros., Inc.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Lack of privity between plaintiff and defendant shall be no defense in any action brought against the manufacturer or seller of goods to recover damages for breach of warranty, express or implied, or for negligence, although the plaintiff did not purchase the goods from the defendant, if the plaintiff was a person whom the manufacturer or seller might reasonably have expected to use, consume, or be affected by the goods;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“confer[red] on foreseeable users of a product both the benefits and limitations of warranties provided to the purchaser.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Section] 8.2-318 ... simply preserves for remote users the warranties already enjoyed by an immediate purchaser.”
1 later decision 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.