Topic: adopted in 1912, the home rule amendment 'altered the longs… · Go Syfert
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3 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 13 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 Black v. City of Killeen.

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1 Black v. City of Killeen Anchor
texapp · 2002
green “adopted in 1912, the home rule amendment 'altered the longstanding practice of having special charters individually granted and amended by the legislature' for the state's larger cities.” 5
2 McGraw v. Teichman
tex · 1948
green “the result of the home rule amendment is that now it is necessary to look to the acts of the legislature not for grants of power to such cities but only for limitations on their powers.” 5
3 Forwood v. City of Taylor
· 1948
green “the result of the home rule amendment is that now it is necessary to look to the acts of the legislature not for grants of power to such cities but only for limitations on their powers.” 3

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