Texas Ry Co v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
159 U.S. 66 · 1895
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1946
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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
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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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By the term just title, in case of prescription, we do not understand that which the possessor may have derived from the true owner, for then no true prescription would be necessary, but a title which the possessor may have received from any person whom he honestly believed .to be the' real owner, provided the title were such as to transfer the ownership of the property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Good faith is always presumed in matters of prescription; and he who alleges bad faith in the posessor, must prove it.” Civ. Code, art. 3481. “The possessor in bad faith is he who possesses as master, but who assumes, this quality, when he well knows that he has no title to the thing, or that his title is vicious and defective." Civ. Code, art. 3452.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.