Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Meadows’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Formosa Plastics Corp. USA v. Presidio Engineers and Contractors, Inc. (1998), American Tobacco Co., Inc. v. Grinnell (1997)
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 37 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, 10th District (Waco))
Relationships
Relies on DeSantis v. Wackenhut Corp. · Stone v. Lawyers Title Ins. Corp. · Clemence v. Clemence · O'Shea v. Commercial Credit Corp.
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) A material misrepresentation, (2) which was false, and (3) which was either known to be false when made or was asserted without knowledge of its truth, (4) which was intended to be acted upon, (5) which was relied upon, and (6) which caused injury'.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.