Telfener v. Russ’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 federal appellate · 10 state decisions

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.

1. “under the laws of Texas, for the purchase of a portion of its unappropriated public lands, could acquire no vested interest in the land applied for, that is, no legal title to it, until the purchase price was paid, and the patent of the State was issued to him. If the price was not paid within sixty days after the return .to the general land office of a map of the land desired and the field-notes of its survey, he forfeited all right to the land and was not thereafter allowed to purchase it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Telfener v. Russ

2. “that he had the right to complete the purchase and secure a patent within th© prescribed period, after the map and field-notes of the survey were filed in the general land office,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Telfener v. Russ

3. “■ “The measure of damages must be the difference between the contract price and the salable value of the right when payment was to be made.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Russ v. Telfener