Swank v. Sverdlin’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
12 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 295th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Havner · Plas-Tex, Inc. v. U.S. Steel Corp. · Federal Land Bank Ass'n of Tyler v. Sloane · Southland Life Insurance v. Egan · Holloway v. Skinner
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the representation was made by a defendant in the course of his business, or in a transaction in which, he had a pecuniary interest; (2) the defendant supplied false information for the guidance of others in their business; (3) the defendant did not exercise reasonable care or competence in obtaining or communicating the information; and (4) the plaintiff suffered pecuniary loss by justifiably relying on the representation.”
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.