Thompson v. Janes’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 1992
15 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 State v. Carpenter · Texas Power & Light Co. v. Hering · Brazos River Conservation & Reclamation District v. Allen · City of Lagrange v. Pieratt · Parker v. Fort Worth & Denver City Railway Co.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Provided that, and it is agreed by both parties, that none of the parties have waived any rights asserted in this proceeding or any rights under law except as is herein otherwise stated, and except it is further expressly agreed that the railroad shall suffer no liability for trespass or unlawful entry by reason of the taking possession, the taking of such possession being hereby expressly consented to by R. E. Janes and R. E. Janes Gravel Company, Inc.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thompson v. Janes““We think reversible error is not presented for the further reason that a condemnation proceeding 'is not a trial of the title to land nor does it involve the recovery of land.’ ” (Citing McInnis v. Brown County Water Improvement District, Tex.Civ.App., 41 S.W.2d 741, 744 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.