Harris v. Balderas’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
12 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 79th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co. · G. A. Stowers Furniture Co. v. American Indemnity Co. · Crawford v. McDonald · Bradley v. State Ex Rel. White · Banda v. Garcia Ex Rel. Garcia
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An acceptance must be identical to the offer, or there is no binding contract.”); Harris v. Balderas, 27 S.W.3d 71, 77 (Tex.App.-San Antonio 2000, pet. denied) ("If the purported acceptance contains terms that materially change the offer, the acceptance is actually a rejection and counter-offer.”
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.