Where the seller at the time of contracting has reason to know any particular purpose for which the goods are required and that the buyer is relying on the seller’s skill or judgment to select or furnish suitable goods, there is unless excluded or modified under the next section an implied warranty that the goods shall be fit for such purpose.
Cal. Com. Code § 2315
General Obligation and Construction of Contract
Known as the Uniform Commercial Code
The act spans §§ 1101–12107 (623 sections).
Applied in 23 court decisions — leading case 63 Cal. 2d 9 - Seely v. White Motor Co. (1965)
Most recently applied in Hilsley v. Gen. Mills, Inc. (March 2019)
Enacted by Stats. 1963, Ch. 819.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.