State v. Wynn’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

26 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction co-extensive with the limits of the State, extending to all questions of law arising in the following cases when same have been brought to the Courts of Civil Appeals from appealable judgments of trial courts: “1. Those in which the judges of the Courts of Civil Appeals may disagree upon any question of law material to the decision. “2. Those in which one of the Courts of Civil Appeals holds differently from a prior decision of another Court of Civil Appeals, or of the Supreme Court upon any question of law material to to a decision of the case.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Whitaker Oil Co. v. Ward · Dixon v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.

2. ““ ‘ * * * Their suit is to cancel the deeds and leases and for-general relief both in law and equity. The cancellation of such instruments by a court of competent jurisdiction would have the legal effect to remove the cloud and incumbrance from the title to their lands * * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dixon v. Alford

3. “"14. Lands.—Suits for the recovery of lands or damages thereto, or to remove incumbrances upon the title to land, or to quiet the title to land, or to prevent or stay waste on lands, must be brought in the county in which the land, or a part thereof, may lie."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. James v. Eagle Rock Ranch