Weitzel v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Formosa Plastics Corp. USA v. Presidio Engineers and Contractors, Inc. (1998), Jack B. Anglin Co., Inc. v. Tipps (1992)
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 77 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 2nd District (Fort Worth))
Relationships
Relies on Rourke v. Garza · Smith v. Baldwin · Town North National Bank v. Broaddus · Satterfield v. Satterfield · Light v. Wilson
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]ral representations ... can serve as the basis of a DTPA action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“efficient, exciting or contributing cause,....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“'subdivision (7) contains no requirement of proof of intent.' We hold that such provision likewise makes no requirement of proof of trickery, artifice, or device.”
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.