Jaffe v. Bolton’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2015
3 federal appellate · 15 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 Paschall's, Inc. v. Dozier · 33 Tenn. App. 439 - E. O. Bailey & Co. v. Union Planters Title Guaranty Co. · 41 Tenn. App. 710 - Peoples Bank v. Baxter · 117 Ill. App. 3d 284 - Lake Bluff Heating & Air Conditioning Supply, Inc. v. Harris Trust & Savings Bank · Parsons Et Ux. v. Hall
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.
“Essentially an “as is” clause means that the buyer or lessee is purchasing or leasing the goods or property as it is in its present state or condition. This generally implies that the property is taken with whatever faults it may possess and implies that the seller or lessor is released of any obligation to reimburse the purchaser or lessee for losses or damages that result from the condition of the goods or property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any written instrument, signed by the debtor, whereby he promises to pay to a person named a definite sum of money, for a valuable consideration stated, at a definite time, upon a specified condition, is within the provision of the statute, and will bear interest from the time of payment designated, upon proof of the happening of the contingency that makes the condition effective ....”
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.