Graves v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably Emerick v. Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. (1988), Maples v. United Savings & Loan Ass'n (1985)
2 federal appellate · 29 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 Murphy v. Carron · Trenton Trust Co. v. Western Surety Co. · Kegan v. Park Bank · Prudential Property & Casualty Ins. Co. v. Cole · Dewey v. American Stair Glide Corp.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We believe that the better rule is that when no request is made of the court in a court-tried case to make specific findings of fact or conclusions of law and they are voluntarily given, such findings and conclusions do form a proper basis for assigning error and should be reviewed. Any holding to the contrary is hereby overruled.” Graves v. Stewart, 642 S.W.2d 649, 651 (Mo. banc 1982).”
3 later decisions 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.