Reese & Co. v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 2018
4 federal appellate · 10 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 Goodenow v. Tyler · Mason v. Chappell · Pickert v. Marston · Robert W. L. Rasin & Co. v. Conley · Smith v. Justice
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“““Every man Is presumed to intend the consequence of his own act. When therefore a vendor negotiating a sale makes an affirmation of quality as an assurance of fact which is relied on by the buyer, it constitutes a warranty, for the vendor will be presumed to have so intended. So we find, in Smith v. Justice, 13 Wis. 600 , the vendor having made such a representation of facts in order to induce a sale, and that representation being relied on by the defendant, it was held to be a warranty, and he was not allowed to avoid the effect of his representations by proof that he did not intend to warrant””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * [T]he decisive test is whether the vendor assumes to assert a fact of which the buyer is ignorant, or merely states an opinion upon a matter of which the vendor has no special knowledge, and upon which a buyer may also be expected to have an opinion, and to exercise his judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.