6 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 42 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 Tarrant Regional Water District v. Gragg.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tarrant Regional Water District v. Gragg Anchor | green | “the requisite intent is present when a governmental entity knows that a specific act is causing identifiable harm or knows that the harm is substantially certain to result.” | 17 |
| 2 | Tarrant Regional Water District v. Gragg | green | “in the case of flood-water impacts, recurrence is a probative factor in determining the extent of the taking and whether it is necessarily incident to authorized government activity, and therefore substantially certain to occur.” | 10 |
| 3 | Harris County Flood Control District v. Kerr | green | “cannot be established by proof of mere negligent conduct by the government.” | 5 |
| 4 | City of Houston v. James & Elizabeth Carlson | green | “a taking is the acquisition, damage, or destruction of property via physical or regulatory means.” | 4 |
| 5 | City of Houston v. James & Elizabeth Carlson | green | “to plead inverse condemnation, a plaintiff must allege an intentional government act that resulted in the uncompensated taking of private property.” | 3 |
| 6 | Harris County Flood Control District v. Kerr, Edward A. and Normal | green | “the factual complexity surrounding this issue and the difficulty of pinpointing precisely what the government entities knew about flooding in the upper watershed and when they knew it.” | 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.