Osburn v. Bendix Home Systems, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2025
2 federal appellate · 21 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 63 Cal. 2d 9 - Seely v. White Motor Co. · 83 Wis. 2d 406 - Murray v. Holiday Rambler, Inc. · Conte v. Dwan Lincoln-Mercury, Inc. · 125 Ill. App. 2d 388 - Adams v. J. I. Case Co. · 169 Ind. App. 556 - Jones v. Abriani
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]he argument advanced is that, as in actions based on the theory of products liability, so in a breach-of-warranty case, the claimant must establish the presence of a specific defect. The contention so advanced is without merit. Identification of an existing defect is not essential to recovery upon express warranty. It is sufficient if, as here, the evidence shows, either directly or by permissible inference, that the goods were defective in their performance or function or that they otherwise failed to conform to the warranty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A mobile home falls clearly within the definition of `goods' found in [Okla. Stat. tit. 12A,] § 2-105.”
2 later decisions 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.