Sonfield v. Burleson’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1981
Relies on Nieto v. Pence · 315 So. 2d 82 - Smith v. Max Thieme Chevrolet Company, Inc. · 385 So. 2d 319 - Davidson v. New Roads Motor Co., Inc. · 322 So. 2d 375 - Guillory v. Morein Motor Company, Inc. · 207 So. 2d 918 - Cain v. Rapides Dodge, 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“either absolutely useless, or its use so inconvenient and imperfect, that it must be supposed that the buyer would not have purchased it, had he known of the vice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“incurred for the preservation of the thing”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.