Stier v. Reading & Bates Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Benchmark Electronics, Inc. v. J.M. Huber Corp. (2003), Narayan v. EGL, Inc. (2010)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 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, 14th District (Houston))
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1333
Relies on Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc. · Medtronic, Inc. v. Lohr · Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen · English v. General Electric 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“agreement shall be interpreted and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas, U.S.A.... applies only to the interpretation and enforcement of the contractual agreement. It does not purport to encompass all disputes between the parties or to encompass tort claims.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“agreement and the rights and obligations of the parties arising hereto shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Iowa”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(A) under the laws of the nation asserting jurisdiction over the area in which the incident occurred; or (B) under the laws of the nation in which, at the time of the incident, the person for whose injury or death a remedy is sought maintained citizenship or residency.”
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.