Ray v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 2000
1 district · 7 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 State of Texas v. Bradford · Manry v. Robison · Anderson v. Polk · Chicago, R. I. & G. Ry. Co. v. Tarrant County Water Control & Improvement Dist. No. 1 · Hancock v. Moore
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““City and County of Dallas Levee Improvement District and Dallas County Flood Control District are bodies politic and corporate pursuant to Acts of the Legislature and Sec. 59(a), Art. 16, State Constitution, Vernon’s Ann. St.; and were created as such for the purpose of constructing and maintaining levees and other improvements necessary for reclamation of lowlands subject to periodic overflow of the Trinity River adjacent to the City. In accordance with provisions of the Constitution and Statutes a Plan of Reclamation was approved, adopted, and filed for record Nov. 6, 1926 covering some 10,500 acres of land lying within Levee District boundaries and under which Plan the course of the Trinity was changed, straightened, and placed between levees; and the old channel set aside for drainage and conduit purposes and the storage of storm waters. At the same time a survey of the old channel was ordered by the Levee- District and its Commissioners of Appraisement; and an ‘on.the ground’ survey descriptive of the old channel so set apart under the Plan was incorporated in the report of the Commissioners of Ap-praisement and filed for record in office of County Clerk, Nov. 28, 1926. “The survey was undertaken under direction of T. C. Forrest, engineer for the Levee District, whose testimony on this trial was that the 1926 operation accurately surveyed the high or cut banks of the old channel, Trinity River, and meander lines established being monumented by iron pipes and witness tre”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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