State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 2010
9 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 Rio Bravo Oil Co. v. Weed · Cantley v. Gulf Production Co. · Coxl v. Campbell · Texas Bitulithic Co. v. Warwick · State v. Williams
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a conveyance is made of a piece of property abutting upon a public highway, it is natural to assume, in the absence of an express reservation to the contrary, that the grantor intended to convey the same with all of the beneficial rights enjoyed by him in its use.”); Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Blankenburg, 149 Tex. 498 , 235 S.W.2d 891, 893 (1951) (dedication of plazas, parks, streets and alleys to the use and benefit of the public created an easement, not fee simple title); Cox v. Campbell, 135 Tex. 428 , 143 S.W.2d 361, 362 (1940) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Pertinent Law Settled case law establishes: that a conveyance of land bounded on a public highway carries with it the fee to the center of the road as part and parcel of the grant. Such is the legal construction of the grant unless the inference that it was so intended is rebutted by the express terms of the grant.”
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.