Speed v. Sadberry’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In order for plaintiff to be entitled to judgment, it was necessary that he show in himself title superior to that under which defendant claimed, and, defendant being in possession, there was a presumption of title in him, authorizing a recovery, in this character of a suit, against persons failing to make an affirmative showing of title. Boggess v. Allen [Tex. Civ. App.] 56 S. W. 195 , affirmed in Allen v. Boggess, 94 Tex. 83 , 58 S. W. 833 ; Kirby v. Boaz, 41 Tex. Civ. App. 282 , 91 S. W. 642 ; Allen v. Long, 80 Tex. 261 , 16 S. W. 43 , 26 Am. St. Rep. 735 ; Shifflet v. Morelle, 68 Tex. 382 , 4 S. W. 843 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lewis v. Heath

2. ““If upon the first day of November of any year any portion of the interest due on any obligation remains unpaid, the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall endorse on such obligation ‘Land Forfeited,’ and shall cause an entry to that effect to be made on the account kept with the purchaser; and thereupon said land shall thereby be forfeited to the state without the necessity of re-entry or judicial ascertainment, and shall revert to the particular fund to which it originally belonged, and be re-sold under the provisions of this chapter, or any future law.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lewis v. Heath