Rusch v. Lincoln-Devore Testing Laboratory, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2017
2 district · 11 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 Carpenter v. Donohoe · Duncan v. Schuster-Graham Homes, Inc. · 41 Colo. App. 227 - Belt v. Spencer · Sloat v. Matheny · 62 Ill. App. 3d 185 - Witty v. Schramm
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Accordingly, we hold that if land is improved and sold for a particular purpose, if [the] vendor has reason to know that the purchaser is relying upon the skill or expertise of the vendor in improving the parcel for that particular purpose, and the purchaser does in fact so rely, there is an implied warranty that the parcel is suitable for the intended purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Corry v. Jahn
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.