hidden defects
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 60 U.S. 390 - George Bulkley v. Christian Honold · 1856Most cited · 30 citing opinions
Louisiana civil code
The law of Louisiana imposes on the seller the obligation of warranting the thing sold against its hidden defects. (Civ. Code, arts. 2,450, 2,451.) Hidden defects are those which could not be discovered by simple inspection.
How often courts cite the case defining “hidden defects”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “hidden defects” — 30 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.