Calvert v. Harris County’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In Lewis, Eminent Domain, Vol. 2 (3rd Ed.) page 1268, we find this statement: ‘When an easement is taken for a Railroad or other public use, the owner of the fee retains title to the minerals with the right to remove them, subject to the right of support for the railroad or whatever may be put upon the land, and to the right of exclusive use of the surface.’ See Southern Pac. R. Co. v. San Francisco Savings Union, 146 Cal. 290 , 79 P. 961, 964 , 70 L.R.A. 221 * * *.” (Emphasis added)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. San Jacinto Sand Co. v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.

2. ““It can hardly be that, in every case where a right of way is sought to be condemned over a strip of oil-bearing land, the valuable rights which were owned by the defendant when the condemnation proceedings were inaugurated, and which the condemning party does not acquire, are entirely lost to defendant owning adjoining land by reason of the condemnation.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Texas-New Mexico Pipeline Company v. Linebery