Williams v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably San Jacinto Sand Co. v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. (1968), City of Mesquite v. Rawlins (1966)
31 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 City of San Antonio v. Grandjean · Caples v. Walker · Guillet v. Livernois · 45 Tex. Civ. App. 480 - Simon v. Nance · Doan v. Allgood
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The conveyance to the gas company expressly provided that it should have certain rights in and upon certain lands belonging to Hutton and his wife, and the gas company had the right of ingress and egress over and upon the lands for the purpose of exercising the rights given therein. The gas company, under the terms of the conveyance, had a legal right to locate, construct, maintain, and operate such lines across the land, and it is to be presumed that the grantors assented to bear all loss and take all profits which incidentally resulted from the exercise of those rights in a proper manner. If grantee exercised the rights conferred in the conveyance with due care and without negligence, then no damages were recoverable. (Emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The court held [in Lone Star Gas Co. v. Hutton, supra] that if the company exercised the rights conferred in the instrument without negligence, no damages were recoverable. We adhere to that rule. So we hold that respondent had the right to grade, cut out and use the entire 30 feet of Hidden Road, provided that in doing so he did not negligently destroy petitioners’ lateral support.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he owner of a way, whose limits are defined in the grant, has not only the right of free passage over the traveled part but also over such portions of the way as he thinks proper or necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.