Stuart v. Bayless’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 190th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Cain v. Bain · Stewart Title Guaranty Co. v. Sterling · Holt Atherton Industries, Inc. v. Heine · C. & R. TRANSPORT, INC. v. Campbell · Spoljaric v. Percival Tours, 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“overhead expenses” such as office rent, salaries to employees, payroll taxes, and other fixed costs of doing business; therefore, they considered their contingency fee cases”
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.