Ehrsam v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 1968
1 federal appellate · 23 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 Thompson v. Libby · Wren v. Hoffman · Diebold Safe & Lock Co. v. Huston & Breeding · American Manufacturing Co. v. Klarquist · Rodgers v. Perrault
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Had the defendant based his action for affirmative relief upon the existence of an implied warranty, and had the trial court submitted this theory of the case to the jury, the argument so made would have been applicable to such a case, but cannot be given weight here.” (Page 473.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ehrsam v. Brown““The terms of the contract, the extent of the obligation undertaken by the parties, are embodied in and limited to what is expressed in the writing, and, as no words of warranty are employed, it will be conclusively presumed that no warranty was intended or éxisted.” (p. 471.)”
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.