Miller v. Keyser

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an individual can be held personally liable under the DTPA only “if there is evidence that the agent personally made misrepresentations.”
• holding individual corporate agent liable under Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, which allows for suits to be brought against “any person”
• recognizing Texas’ longstanding rule that a corporate agent is personally liable for his own fraudulent or tortious acts
• recognizing “Texas’ longstanding rule that a corporate agent is personally liable for his own fraudulent or tortious acts”
• stating that if legislature had wanted to restrict class of persons who could be sued under DTPA, it could have done so by simply drafting restriction into some provision of act
• holding sales agent may be held individually liable under DTPA for misrepresentations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Franka v. Velasquez
  Texas Supreme Court· 2011-01-21· cited 374×
• In Re Merrill Lynch Trust Co. FSB
  Texas Supreme Court· 2007-08-24· cited 273×
• State v. Ninety Thousand Two Hundred Thirty-Five Dollars & No Cents in United States Currency ($90,235)
  Texas Supreme Court· 2013-01-25· cited 133×
• Khan v. GBAK Properties, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2012-03-29· cited 110×
• Wright v. Sage Engineering, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2004-04-08· cited 109×
• Continental Dredging, Inc. v. De-Kaizered, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2003-10-22· cited 89×
• Main Place Custom Homes, Inc. v. Honaker
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2006-04-20· cited 86×
• Morrison v. Western Builders of Amarillo, Inc. (In Re Morrison)
  Fifth Circuit· 2009-01-16· cited 75×
• Sanchez v. Mulvaney
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2008-09-11· cited 56×
• Centurion Planning Corp. v. Seabrook Venture II
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2005-05-27· cited 53×
• Daugherty v. Jacobs
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2006-01-19· cited 51×
• In re Butt
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-05-09· cited 39×
• Farooqi v. Carroll (In re Carroll)
  N.D. Texas· 2011-12-13· cited 39×
• Norris v. Thomas
  Texas Supreme Court· 2007-02-09· cited 38×
• Bates Energy Oil & Gas v. Complete Oilfield Servs.
  W.D. Texas· 2019-01-14· cited 38×
• Edgar L. Hull, Jr. v. South Coast Catamarans, L.P., Oguz Aksan, Individually, Aksano Catamarans, LLC and James Babcock
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2011-05-12· cited 35×
• City of Waco, TX v. Bittle
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2005-03-16· cited 30×
• Cimarron Hydrocarbons Corp. v. Carpenter
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2004-09-24· cited 29×
• Ward Family Foundation v. Arnette (In Re Arnette)
  N.D. Texas· 2011-06-07· cited 26×
• TecLogistics, Inc. and Josephine Treurnie v. Dresser-Rand Group, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-07-27· cited 22×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Helena Chemical Co. v. Wilkins
  Texas Supreme Court· 2001-04-26· cited 1,137×
• Cameron v. Terrell & Garrett, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1981-03-04· cited 936×
• Amstadt v. United States Brass Corp.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1996-05-10· cited 879×
• Eagle Properties, Ltd. v. Scharbauer
  Texas Supreme Court· 1991-03-27· cited 367×
• Leyendecker & Associates, Inc. v. Wechter
  Texas Supreme Court· 1984-12-05· cited 363×
• Pennington v. Singleton
  Texas Supreme Court· 1980-09-12· cited 279×
• Smith v. Baldwin
  Texas Supreme Court· 1980-12-31· cited 268×
• Hunter v. Fort Worth Capital Corp.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1981-07-15· cited 257×
• Woods v. Littleton
  Texas Supreme Court· 1977-07-26· cited 250×
• Flenniken v. Longview Bank and Trust Co.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 215×
• Weitzel v. Barnes
  Texas Supreme Court· 1985-06-05· cited 177×
• Jim Walter Homes, Inc. v. Valencia
  Texas Supreme Court· 1985-04-17· cited 96×
• Light v. Wilson
  Texas Supreme Court· 1983-12-31· cited 69×
• Karl and Kelly Company, Inc. v. McLerran
  Texas Supreme Court· 1983-02-16· cited 55×
• Joseph v. PPG Industries, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1984-06-27· cited 44×
• Eckman v. Centennial Savings Bank
  Texas Supreme Court· 1990-02-21· cited 41×
• Keyser v. Miller
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2001-05-03· cited 7×

Other cases named Miller v. Keyser

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Miller v. Keyser
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-03-19· cited 1×