Gray v. West’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2014
4 federal appellate · 14 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 Garza v. Alviar · Brown v. Cole · Neri v. Retail Marine Corp. · Seale v. Nichols · Taylor v. Lewis
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“2-710. Seller’s Incidental Damages. Incidental damages to an aggrieved seller include any commercially reasonable charges, expenses or commissions incurred in stopping delivery, in the transportation, care and custody of goods after the buyer’s breach, in connection with return or resale of the goods or otherwise resulting from the breach.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“SPECIAL ISSUE NO. 1 Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that on or prior to March 23, 1977, Plaintiff, Frank Heger, and Defendants, G. Hasslocher and Veva Has-slocher, entered into a joint venture agreement concerning the North Star Diamond? “Joint venture” means a special combination of two or more persons in the nature of a partnership engaged in the joint prosecution of a particular transaction for their mutual benefit or profit. The elements of a joint venture are: (1) mutual right of control, (2) community of interest, (3) agreement to share profits as principals, and (4) agreement to share losses, costs or expenses. You are further instructed that in order to create a binding agreement, the minds of the parties must meet with respect to both the subject matter of the agreement and all of its essential terms. The undisclosed intentions or understandings of one party will not bind the other party unless the other party also attaches the same meanings to the words. We, the Jury, answer: We do”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hasslocher v. Heger“West sued Gray individually on the theory that Gray participated individually in the business transaction in question. West was not attempting to establish Gray’s personal liability as alter ego of G & R Distributors. In that posture, Gray’s contention that he acted only through the corporation and not individually is an affirmative defense under Rule 93, Tex.R. Civ.P. His unsuccessful reliance on the defense did not place any burden on West to pierce a corporate veil because the corporate veil was never drawn. Id. at 778 .”
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.