Coxl v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably City of San Antonio v. City of Boerne (2003), Ulbricht v. Friedsam (1959)
2 federal appellate · 56 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 Couch v. Texas Pacific Railway Co. · Texas Bitulithic Co. v. Warwick
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule has been definitely announced in the Warwick and Weed cases that where a deed conveys by specific field notes land abutting on a street or public highway of railroad right' of way, it conveys ' title to the property to the center of the street, public highway, or railroad right of way; and such rule is not overcome even though the field notes describing the land stop at the side line of'the street, public highway, or railroad right of way, unless a contrary intention is expressed in plain and unequivocal terms.” •”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Boothe v. McLean
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.