Berkeley Bank for Cooperatives v. Meibos’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 5 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Coston v. Bank of Malvern (1993), Roth v. First Security Bank of Rock Springs (1984)
7 federal appellate · 5 district · 21 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 Pace v. Parrish · Equitable Life Insurance v. Halsey, Stuart & Co. · 18 Utah 2d 378 - Jardine v. Brunswick Corporation · Stuck v. Delta Land & Water Co. · Johnson v. Allen
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A closely similar problem is raised by a promise or statement of future conduct by one who, at the time, intends not to fulfill the promise. The promise itself is regarded as a representation of a present intention to perform. Hence, such a promise, made by one not intending to perform operates as a misrepresentation a misrepresentation of the speaker's state of mind, at the time, and is actionable as a misrepresentation of "fact." "To profess an intent to do or not to do, when the party intends the contrary, is as clear a misrepresentation and fraud as could be made."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It can hardly be maintained that the general moral level of business and other financial relationships would be enhanced by a rule of law which would allow a person to defend against a willful, deliberate fraud by stating, “You should not have trusted or believed me” or “Had you not been so gullible you would not have been [so] deceived.””
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.