Kilpatrick v. Sisneros’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 13 state decisions

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

1. ““They may have forfeited their right of citizenship and their title to their lands, but until the forfeiture has been ascertained and adjudged by some proceeding, to be authorized by law for that purpose, their civil status is not changed, nor their rights of property divested.” (Emphasis supplied). * ⅜ * ⅝ * * “The terms of the provision leave no room to doubt, that the denunciation of forfeiture, was directed against those who should adhere to the Mexican cause, in the then struggle for independence; but, until the forfeiture was incurred and adjudged, all who were residing here, at the date of the declaration of independence, were, in the language of the constitution, to ‘be considered citizens of the republic, and entitled to all the privileges of such’. Adhering to the cause of Mexico, and going there to reside, did not, ipso facto, and without any action taken to declare the forfeiture by the government, make them aliens, or vacate their titles, and restore their land to the mass of vacant domain.” (Emphasis supplied).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Superior Oil Company

2. ““Thus the condition upon which, by the law of the grant, the land was to become vacant, was that the colonist should have established himself in a foreign country; that is, of course, a country foreign to the Republic of Mexico. This was the condition annexed to the grant, by the law of the contract between the government and the grantee. The law entered into and formed a part of the contract, and bound the government to respect the title of the grantee, so long as he remained domiciled within the republic of Mexico.” (Emphasis added).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Superior Oil Company

3. ““All persons (Africans, the descendants of Africans, and the Indians excepted) who were residing in Texas on the day of the declaration of inder pendenee [March 2, 183G] shall be considered citizens of the republic, and entitled to all the privileges of such.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Rodriguez