Stuart v. Bayless’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably MBM FINANCIAL v. Woodlands Operating Co. (2009), Petco Animal Supplies, Inc. v. Schuster (2004)
25 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, 1st District (Houston))
Relationships
Relies on Arthur Andersen & Co. v. Perry Equipment Corp. · Mead v. Johnson Group, Inc. · Stuart v. Bayless
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are not recoverable unless the parties contemplated at the time they made the contract that such damages would be a probable result of the breach”). . ISW additionally cites Guaranty Service Corp. v. American Employers' Insurance Co. 898 F.2d 453 (5th Cir.1990) (per curiam) (applying Mississippi law and holding that the plaintiff can recover”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be foreseeable and directly traceable to the wrongful act and result from it.”
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.