Stewart v. Basey’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 228 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 286 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Phillips v. Phillips (1992), Permian Petroleum Company v. Petroleos Mexicanos Permian Petroleum Company (1991)
35 federal appellate · 228 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 Eakin v. Scott · Palestine Ice, Fuel & Gin Co. v. Walter Connally & Co. · Stewart v. Basey · Langever v. Smith · Sanders Nursery Co. v. J. C. Engelman, Inc.
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 286 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a reasonable estimate of just compensation”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it would be unreasonable and a violation of the principle of just compensation to enforce [the stipulation]....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““An obligation to pay an indemnity is nothing more than an obligation to pay a sum of money theretofore ascertained, and a provision that failure to pay a definite sum of money upon default of performance of a covenant in a contract entitles the obligee to recover liquidated damages in excess of the interest rate will not be enforced. Langever v. R. G. Smith & Co., Tex.Com.App., 278 S.W. 178 .” (emphasis supplied)”
1 later decision 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.