Stine v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 131 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably In Re Weekley Homes, L.P. (2005), The City of Houston v. Steve Williams (2011)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 84 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 2nd District (Fort Worth))
Relationships
Relies on MCI Telecommunications Corp. v. Texas Utilities Electric Co. · Fort Smith v. Fairbanks, Morse Company · Siegel v. McGavock Drilling Co. · Bright & Co. v. Holbein Family Mineral Trust · Brown v. Fullenweider
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 131 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An acknowledgment of the justness of a claim that appears to be barred by limitations is not admissible in evidence to defeat the law of limitations if made after the time that the claim is due unless the acknowledgment is in writing and is signed by the party to be charged.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“1) be in writing and signed by the party to be charged; 2) contain an unequivocal acknowledgment of the justness or the existence of the particular obligation; and 3) refer to the obligation and express a willingness to honor that obligation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the general four-year statute of limitations for breach of contract applies”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nghiem v. Sajib
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.