Chaignaud v. Baden’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 state decisions

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

1. ““The conduct of defendant as evidenced, first, by his making payments on the note instead of demanding the return of his initial payment of $1',500, and secondly, by his continued use of the equipment for nearly three years is inconsistent with his claim the machinery was useless.” Id., at page 79.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 125 So. 2d 460 - Union Enterprises, Inc. v. Brown

2. “"Redhibition is the avoidance of a sale on account of some vice or defect in the thing sold, which renders it either absolutely useless, or its use so inconvenient and imperfect, that it must be supposed that the buyer would not have purchased it, had he known of the vice."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 171 So. 2d 678 - Hanna Investments, Inc. v. Stovall

3. “"The buyer may also content himself with resorting to this action, when the quality, which the thing sold has been declared to possess and which it is found to want, is not of such importance as to induce him to demand a redhibition."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 171 So. 2d 678 - Hanna Investments, Inc. v. Stovall