Wagner v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 2011
5 federal appellate · 15 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 Trenholm v. Ratcliff · Brown v. American Transfer & Storage Co. · Town North National Bank v. Broaddus · Isenhower v. Bell · United Postage Corp. v. Kammeyer
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has long been the law in Texas that a corporate agent knowingly participating in a tortious or fraudulent act may be held individually liable, even though he performed the act as an agent for the corporation. Knowing participation in a tortious act will render the corporate agent personally liable, while the mere breach of a corporate contractual obligation will not. It is not necessary that the “corporate veil” be pierced in order to impose personal liability, as long as it is shown that the corporate officer knowingly participated in the wrongdoing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Keyser v. Miller
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.