Iacono v. Lyons

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that plaintiff’s alleged oral promise to share one-half of lottery winnings with defendant in exchange for defendant’s oral promise to share one-half of winnings with plaintiff would constitute adequate consideration to form contract
• stating that, if an agreement, either by its terms or by the nature of the required acts, cannot be performed within one year, it falls within the statute of frauds and must be in writing.
• although plaintiff had some connection with Missouri, because accident scene, all witnesses to accident, and plaintiff’s medical providers were all located in Canada, no abuse of discretion occurred in trial court finding Canada to be more convenient forum

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

29 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Beverick v. Koch Power, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2006-03-13· cited 166×
• In Re C H News Company
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2003-01-16· cited 108×
• Domingo v. Mitchell
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2008-06-17· cited 94×
• Nguyen v. Yovan
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2009-12-09· cited 51×
• Richard Sewing v. Steven Wayne Bowman as Personal Representative of the Estate of William C. Bowman
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2012-03-29· cited 22×
• Ardmore, Inc F/K/A GHX Incorporated and Star Properties, LLC v. the Rex Group, Inc. D/B/A T-3 Support Services, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2012-04-19· cited 10×
• Ashley Smith v. Steven Barnhart
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2019-04-02· cited 5×
• Cambiano v. Arkansas State Board of Law Examiners
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2004-05-06· cited 4×
• Vanegas v. American Energy Services
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2007-05-10· cited 2×
• John Hawkins v. Angela Myers
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2015-01-01
• Elliott, William H.,Jr. v. Stephen Whitten
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2004-09-23
• Tim Beverick v. KOCH Power, Inc., Flint Hills Resources, L.P. and Entergy-Koch Trading, L.P.
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2005-12-29
• Mary Williams, D.D.S. and Russell Williams, D.D.S. v. L.M.S.C., Inc., D/B/A the Dental Solution
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2005-10-06
• G. W. McKinzie Company Nad the Air Conditioning Store, Inc. v. Raytheon Appliances, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2005-03-24
• Anna Marie Nguyen v. Alex Yovan and Philip Yovan
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2009-10-01
• in the Interest of C.L.W. and H.A.W., Minor Children
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2006-04-12
• Kevin Mikel Brashears v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2007-12-31
• Betty Domingo v. Brenda Mitchell
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2008-05-21
• American Fluorite, Inc. and Triad Drilling & Supply Co., Inc. v. JB Oilfield, L.L.C.
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2009-03-19
• Unnamed case
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2007-05-10

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1985-05-01· cited 7,748×
• City of Houston v. Clear Creek Basin Authority
  Texas Supreme Court· 1979-10-03· cited 5,187×
• Walker v. Harris
  Texas Supreme Court· 1996-06-14· cited 690×
• Roark v. STALLWORTH OIL AND GAS, INC
  Texas Supreme Court· 1991-09-11· cited 610×
• Texas Gas Utilities Company v. Barrett
  Texas Supreme Court· 1970-11-25· cited 103×
• Bratcher v. Dozier
  Texas Supreme Court· 1961-05-31· cited 97×
• Hall v. Hall
  Texas Supreme Court· 1957-12-04· cited 97×
• Gerstacker v. Blum Consulting Engineers, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1994-08-24· cited 54×
• Barbouti v. Munden
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1993-10-21· cited 50×
• Eisenbeck v. Buttgen
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1970-01-09· cited 28×
• Casey v. Methodist Hospital
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1995-09-14· cited 21×
• Keystone International, Inc. v. Ingham
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1979-12-18· cited 9×
• Young v. Smith
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1983-03-18· cited 8×
• Langford v. Home for Aged Masons
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1981-05-28· cited 6×