Hale County v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2024
8 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 Texas Farm Bureau Cotton Ass'n v. Stovall · Sumner v. Crawford · City of Dallas v. Wright · Hill Farm, Inc. v. Hill County · Hill Farm, Inc. v. Hill County
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he county possesses no authority in law to grant an easement in the road's subsurface owned by an individual for the exclusive private use of a nonowner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ross v. Nelson“the applicant is entitled to the relief demanded and all or part of the relief requires the restraint of some act prejudicial to the applicant[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the right to the undisturbed possession and use of the subsurface”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ross v. Nelson
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.