Leathers v. Craig’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 1993
16 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 Howell v. Estes · Kansas City v. Hyde · Ellis v. Bassett · 53 Tex. Civ. App. 71 - Sassman v. Collins · 20 Tex. Civ. App. 59 - Hall v. City of Austin
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The use which will justify the taking of private property under the exercise of the right of eminent domain is the use by or for the government, the general public, or some portion of it as such, and not the use by or for particular individuals or for the benefit of particular estates.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tod v. Massey““ ‘It is hardly necessary to say that the power of the commissioners’ court to lay out public roads did not exist except in cases of public necessity therefor, and that it did not have authority to lay out such roads for the sole purpose of benefiting Bradford only.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tod v. Massey
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.