54 Tex. Civ. App. 540 - Lewright v. Travis County’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 1963
10 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In its final analysis this decision (Steward v. Coleman County) means that, in ascertaining the boundaries of county school lands, such construction will be given to the field notes so returned to the land office as to give to the county the benefit of those calls that are most favorable to”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cross v. Wilkinson
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.