Rod v. Campion’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Calcasieu Lumber Co. v. Harris · Haines v. McLean · Texas Electric Railway Co. v. Neale · Brightwell v. International-Great Northern Railroad · Reiter v. Coastal States Gas Producing 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]wnership of vested title in land, as in this case a fee simple title, may not be divested by abandonment. Such may have been possible in Texas prior to adoption of the common lav? in 1840,[ 4 ] but since that time abandonment of title has not been recognized.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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