58 So. 2d 539 - Davis v. Dunn’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 1999 · most notably Fegeas v. Sherrill (1978), 73 So. 2d 411 - Carter v. Livesay Window Co. (1954)
2 federal appellate · 27 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 Glass v. Craig · Hart v. Marbury · Hancoy Holding Co. v. Lambright · Hancoy Holding Company v. Lambright · Greenberg v. Berger
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * [P]laintiffs-appellants had a full and ample opportunity to inspect the premises for termites or to have obtained the inspection services of an expert in this field prior to accepting the deed, paying $7,000 in cash, and giving back a purchase money mortgage on the property for $7,000. We find nothing in the evidence to the effect that the plaintiffs-appellants were denied the right and privilege by the defendants-appellees to make an inspection of the property for termites in any manner desirable, but they elected not so to do and accepted as true the statements of the broker of the owner that the property was not infested with termites."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"* * * testified that it was an ordinary arms-length transaction and that he was not high-pressured; that he knew it was an old house and that he had been told to be on the `look-out' for termites; that he visited the house three or four times between the time he signed the contract of purchase and the time the deal was closed and that Mrs. Dunn had given him the key and that he had complete freedom to inspect as much as he wanted and that he `could have gone in and torn it up' and that he could have had a termite expert make an inspection for termites." (Emphasis added.) 58 So.2d at 540 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"It is true that the law recognizes the right of a trader or dealer `to cry his own wares', but these statements are but mere expressions of opinion and the purchaser is not relieved of the duty and responsibility of an honest and thorough investigation as to the truth of the statements of the trader or dealer." (Emphasis added.) 46 So.2d at 610 .”
1 later decision 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.