Sims v. Craig’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Jaramillo v. Gonzales (2002), State Ex Rel. Conley Lott Nichols MacHinery Co. v. Safeco Insurance Co. of America (1983)
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 24 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 Cave v. Cave · Tome Land & Improvement Co. v. Silva · Maxey v. Quintana · Herrera v. State · Jack Dailey Realty, Inc. v. Maxey
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Negligent misrepresentation is available to a plaintiff who is “so circumstanced that he cannot or does not wish to rescind, and cannot meet the proof required for the tort of fraud or deceit [as a] .. . remedy for damages caused by a misrepresentation short of fraud.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“1) an existing and valid contract; 2) an agreement to the new contract by all the parties; 3) a new valid contract; and 4) an extinguishment of the old contract by the new one.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Maulsby v. Magnuson“The theory of liability for this tort is one of negligence rather than of intent to mislead.”
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.