Carpenter v. Chrysler Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Jacobs Manufacturing Co. v. Sam Brown Co. (1994), Smith v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. (1997)
6 federal appellate · 24 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1981
Relies on Pacific Mutual Life Insurance v. Haslip · Mississippi v. Turner · Burnett v. Griffith · 231 Mo. App. 187 - Jones v. West Side Buick Co. · Beggs v. Universal CIT Credit Corporation
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. defendant's sale of the goods to plaintiff; 2. defendant's representation to plaintiff that the goods were of certain kind or quality; 3. defendant's representation induced plaintiff's purchase of, or was a material factor in plaintiff's decision to purchase the goods; 4. nonconformity of the goods to the representations made; 5. plaintiff's notice to defendant, within a reasonable time of discovery of the goods' nonconformity, of such failure to conform; and 6. plaintiff's damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If you find in favor of the Plaintiffs [Plaintiffs’ names in original], then you must award Plaintiffs [Plaintiffs' names in original] such sum as you believe was the difference between the actual value of the property on the date it was sold to Plaintiffs [Plaintiffs' names in original] and what its value would have been on that date had the property been as represented by [sales agent(s) named in original].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[a]ny affirmation of fact or promise made by the seller to the buyer which relates to the goods and becomes part of the basis of the bargain ... that the goods shall conform to the affirmation or promise.”
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.