11 canonical passages across 9 cases, quoted by 107 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Brown v. Todd.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brown v. Todd Anchor | green | “our decisions have always required a plaintiff to allege some injury distinct from that sustained by the public at large.” | 20 |
| 2 | Brown v. Todd | green | “we may look to the similar federal standing requirements for guidance.” | 20 |
| 3 | Valadez v. Avitia | green | “failure to cite legal authority or provide substantive analysis of the legal issue presented results in waiver of the complaint.” | 20 |
| 4 | Coastal Oil & Gas Corp. v. Garza Energy Trust | green | “this court has not indicated whether standing is always a matter of subject-matter jurisdiction” | 8 |
| 5 | Hays County v. Hays County Water Planning Partnership | green | “have standing to sue in their own right” | 6 |
| 6 | Save Our Springs Alliance, Inc. v. Lazy Nine Municipal Utility District Ex Rel. Board of Directors | green | “reasonable minds can differ concerning whether the attorney's fees are just and equitable” | 6 |
| 7 | Housing Authority of Harlingen v. State Ex Rel. Velasquez | green | “economic, recreational, or environmental” | 6 |
| 8 | Coastal Habitat Alliance v. Public Utility Commission | green | “whether a plaintiff has standing in federal courts to assert a cause of action is not indicative of the deprivation of a vested property right.” | 6 |
| 9 | Texas Rivers Protection Ass'n v. Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission | green | “our decisions have always required a plaintiff to allege some injury distinct from that sustained by the public at large.” | 5 |
| 10 | Texas Rivers Protection Ass'n v. Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission | green | “riparian ownership alone sufficiently distinguishes his injury from that of the public at large.” | 5 |
| 11 | Texas Commerce Bank, National Ass'n v. New | green | “generally, the nature and extent of the attorney's services are expressed by the number of hours and the hourly rate.” | 5 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment — for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.