Echols v. Bloom’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2015
3 federal appellate · 17 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 Gulbenkian v. Penn · Colligan v. Smith · Smith v. Walters
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a false representation or concealment of a material fact; (2) made with actual or constructive knowledge of the fact; (3) made to a person who lacked such knowledge or the means of acquiring knowledge of the fact; (4) made with the intention that it should be acted on; and (5) the person to whom it was made must have acted on it to his prejudice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is axiomatic that to be valid and enforceable a contract establishing an option must be supported by consideration. 13 Tex. Jur. 2d Contracts Sec. 38 (1960). Often the consideration is, as here, a sum of money to be regarded as a parcel of the total purchase price in the event the option-holder elects to buy. If an option is contained in a contract which itself is supported by a sufficient consideration, no independent consideration for the option itself need appear. Colligan v. Smith, 366 S.W.2d 816 (Tex. Civ. App.—Fort Worth 1963, writ ref'd. n.r.e.).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) a false representation or concealment of material facts, (2) made with knowledge, actual or constructive, of those facts, (3) to a party without knowledge, or the means of acquiring knowledge of those facts, (4) with the intention that it should be acted on, and (5) the party to whom it was made must have relied or acted on it to his prejudice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kennedy v. Hyde
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.