10 canonical passages across 10 cases, quoted by 65 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 Fitzgerald v. Advanced Spine Fixation Systems, Inc..
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fitzgerald v. Advanced Spine Fixation Systems, Inc. Anchor | green | “it is a fair assumption that the legislature tries to say what it means, and therefore the words it chooses should be the surest guide to legislative intent.” | 24 |
| 2 | Mid-Century Insurance Co. of Texas v. Ademaj | green | “it is a fair assumption that the legislature tries to say what it means, and therefore the words it chooses should be the surest guide to legislative intent.” | 11 |
| 3 | Johnson v. City of Fort Worth | green | “matters of statutory construction are questions of law for the court to decide rather than issues of fact” | 6 |
| 4 | Methodist Charlton Medical Center v. Steele | green | “not later than the 120th day after the date the 'original petition' was filed” | 5 |
| 5 | American Flood Research, Inc. v. Jones | green | “an appellate court may reverse the trial court's ruling only if the trial court acted without reference to any guiding rules and principles, such that its ruling was arbitrary or unreasonable.” | 4 |
| 6 | Mutchler v. Texas Department of Public Safety | green | “the coordinator of the legislative budget board testified at trial that any payments for supplemental or overtime pay must come from a specific 'line item' appropriation.” | 3 |
| 7 | Opinion Intracare Hospital North v. Campbell Ex Rel. Brown | green | “remove unwarranted delay and expense, to accelerate the disposition of non-meritorious cases, and to give hard--and--fast deadlines for the serving of expert reports.” | 3 |
| 8 | Levesque v. Wilkens | green | “as a general rule, a lessor relinquishes possession or occupancy of the premises to the lessee.” | 3 |
| 9 | Breaux v. Allied Bank of Texas | green | “since appellant prepared the original application for guardianship, appellant cannot now argue that the entire guardianship was improper because the ward was not a person of 'unsound mind.” | 3 |
| 10 | Severance v. Patterson | green | “every unauthorized entry upon land of another is a trespass, even if no damage is done or injury is slight.” | 3 |
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.