Stephens v. Mills County’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently March 1992
3 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 Dunn v. Price · Greer v. Hunt County · Hill County v. Sauls · 14 Tex. Civ. App. 234 - Bonner v. Bradley · Wood County v. Leath
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law is settled that an implied contract arises only where in the circumstances disclosed which, according to the ordinary course of dealing and the common understanding of men, show a mutual intent to contract. 10 Tex.jur. 18, 23.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kuykendall v. Biggs
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.