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625 F.2d 1291 · 1980

Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
5
states following
March 2017
most recently cited

10 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Stevenson v. TRW Inc. (1993), 749 So. 2d 409 - Green Tree Financial Corporatoin v. Wampler (1999)

10 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions

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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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Henningsen v. Bloomfield Motors, Inc. · Galtieri v. Wainwright · Triangle Underwriters, Inc. v. Honeywell, Inc. · 418 F. Supp. 435 - American Electric Power Co. v. Westinghouse Electric Corp.

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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “EXCEPT AS SPECIFICALLY PROVIDED IN THIS AGREEMENT, THERE ARE NO OTHER WARRANTIES EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “Words or conduct relevant to the creation of an express warranty and words or conduct tending to negate or limit warranty shall be construed wherever reasonable as consistent with each other; but subject to the provisions of this Article on parol or extrinsic evidence (Section 2-202) negation or limitation is inoperative to the extent that such construction is unreasonable.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “There are no warranties which extend beyond the description on the face hereof.”
    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.