Kitchen v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2015
9 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 Maynard v. Maynard
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[s]ome cases carry the doctrine of caveat emptor so far as to hold that the seller is under no obligation to communicate the existence of defects in the thing sold not discoverable by examination... . But it is generally held in this country that the intentional non-disclosure of a latent defect by the seller, when he knows that it is unknown to the buyer, is fraudulent ...,"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`if he intentionally withholds information of the existence of defects, which are not equally within the ken of the buyer ... it is undoubtedly a fraud,'”
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.