Register v. Roberson Const. Co., Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Dewitt v. Rent-A-Center, Inc. (2009), Landavazo v. Sanchez (1990)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 40 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 Duke City Lumber Company, Inc. v. Terrel · Toltec International, Inc. v. Village of Ruidoso · Stewart v. Potter · Unser v. Unser · Industrial Supply Company v. Goen
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While it is true that an action for fraud will ordinarily not lie as to a pattern of conduct based on promises that future events will take place, there are nonetheless the following well-established exceptions to this rule ... where the promises are based on contrary facts peculiarly within the promisor’s knowledge, or where the promise is based on a concealment of known facts. Further, if the promise as to future events is part of an overall pattern designed to lead a party to act to his/her detriment, and in such a way as harmfully to alter a legal right possessed by the party, then promises as to future actions will support an action for fraud, especially in a situation where the defendant states an opinion or belief as to future occurrences which are shown to have had no support by the facts at the time the opinions or beliefs were given.”
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.