Moore v. Proctor’s Empirical Analysis

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1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The governing rule in the construction of written instruments is ‘that every part of the instrument should be harmonized and given effect to if it can be done’. Hancock v. Butler, 21 Tex. (804) 806. But this rule does not demand that every part of the deed shall be treated as of equal weight in the solution of every question that may arise. ‘The habendum may fye entirely rejected if repugnant to the other clauses of the conveyance.’ Devl. Deeds, § 213.” Moore v. City of Waco, 85 Tex. 206 , 20 S.W. 61, 63 . “The languáge of a deed is the language of the grantor, and, if there be a doubt as to its construction, it should be resolved against him.” Curdy v. Stafford, 88 Tex. 120 , 30 S.W. 551, 552 . “The dominant purpose in construing a deed is to ascertain the indention of the parties as expressed in the deed itself; and such intention expressed therein is a controlling factor.” Bumpass v. Bond, 131 Tex. 266 , 114 S.W.2d 1172, 1174 , pars. 2 and 3, and cases there cited. (The foregoing quotation taken from the case of Moore v. Proctor, Tex.Civ.App., 234 S.W.2d 479 ).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Coastal States Crude Gathering Co. v. Cummings