Maddox v. Katz’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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

1. ““ * * * We would not wish to be understood as holding that the presence of these words (as is) in a contract of sale would amount to a waiver of all warranty by the purchaser. But, certainly, the phrase modifies the warranty implied. If, however, the thing sold, the automobile in this case is not fit for the use for which it was intended; for example, if it would not run, the fact that it was sold ‘as is’ would not prevent a recission of the sale, for one of the characteristics of an automobile, as its name suggests, is the ability to run on its own power.” (Emphasis added).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 252 So. 2d 690 - Roche v. Broussard

2. ““Similarly, the sale of a table, even an old and secondhand table ‘as is’, does not relieve the vendor of all warranty. The table sold under such circumstances must be fit for use as a table, but it is certainly not warranted to be in perfect condition, free from all defects which usage and age might cause. * * * ” (Emphasis added).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 252 So. 2d 690 - Roche v. Broussard