Ex Parte Henry’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

43 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[W]hen the trial court ordered relators not to picket within 100 feet of the spur tracks when the railways were using or about to use them, he was abridging the right of free speech guaranteed them by the Constitution. So, in so far as the injunction judgment entered by the trial court attempted to restrain peaceful picketing at, near, across or within 100 feet of the railway tracks across Pickett Street, it is void____ [T]he order of commitment for contempt is likewise void. One cannot be punished for contempt for violating an order which a court has no authority to make. Id. 215 S.W.2d at 596-97 .”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ex Parte Edmonds · Howard Gault Co. v. Texas Rural Legal Aid, Inc.

2. ““Under our holding in Ex Parte Fisher, 146 Texas 328 , 206 S.W. 2d 1000 , we are authorized to consider the facts proved in the contempt hearing to determine whether they were sufficient to confer jurisdiction upon the trial court to hold relators in contempt. That examination discloses that they were not so sufficient and that the contempt commitment was, therefore, void.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ex Parte Twedell

3. “So long as the pickets did not physically obstruct the spur tracks and thereby nullify or seriously impair the right of the railways to use the street, they had the same right to use the streets as the railways had.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ex Parte Tucci