Spoljaric v. Percival Tours, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 192 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 276 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Formosa Plastics Corp. USA v. Presidio Engineers and Contractors, Inc. (1998), American Tobacco Co., Inc. v. Grinnell (1997)
29 federal appellate · 192 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 Garza v. Alviar · Benoit v. Wilson · Chicago, Texas & Mexican Central Railway Co. v. Titterington · Trenholm v. Ratcliff · Stanfield v. O'BOYLE
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 276 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While a party's intent is determined at the time the party made the representation, it may be inferred from the party's subsequent acts after the representation is made.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“[s]light circumstantial evidence of fraud, when considered with the breach of promise to perform, is sufficient to support a finding of fraudulent intent”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Courts have held a party’s denial that he ever made a promise is a factor showing no intent to perform when he made the promise.” Spoljaric, 708 S.W.2d at 435. Prospect responds that in contrast to the absence of even”
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.