Stalcup v. Eastham’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2005
2 federal appellate · 7 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 Corzelius v. Oliver · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. City of El Paso · Southwestern Life Ins. Co. v. Houston · Sovereign Camp, W. O. W. v. Derrick · Hilburn v. Herrin Transp. Co.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Courts cannot make contracts for parties, and can declare implied covenants to exist only where it appears that such covenants were clearly contemplated by the parties or are necesary to effect purposes of contract. Hillburn v. Herrin Transp. Co., Tex.Civ.App., 197 S.W.2d 149 .””
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.