Severance v. Patterson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• observing that State could have, but did not, reserve right of public to use beachfront property when issuing land patent to private individuals
• stating that private property rights are “fundamental, natural, inherent, inalienable, not derived from the legislature” (quoting Eggemeyer v. Eggemeyer, 544 S.W.2d 137, 140 (Tex. 1977))
• “An easement does not divest a property owner of title, but allows another to use the property for [a specific] purpose.”
• “An easement does not divest a property owner of title, but allows another to use the property for [a specific] purpose.”
• “[T]he right to exclude others from privately owned realty is among the most valuable and fundamental of rights possessed by private property owners.”
• stated existence of easement in general terms implies a grant of unlimited reasonable use such as is reasonably necessary and convenient and as little burdensome as possible to the servient owner

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

64 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Lightning Oil Co. v. Anadarko E&P Onshore, LLC
  Texas Supreme Court· 2017-05-19· cited 241×
• Hearts Bluff Game Ranch, Inc. v. State
  Texas Supreme Court· 2012-08-31· cited 187×
• Environmental Processing Systems, L.C. v. Fpl Farming Ltd.
  Texas Supreme Court· 2015-02-06· cited 58×
• Keith Redburn v. Charmelle Garrett
  Fifth Circuit· 2018-08-01· cited 44×
• in Re Sun Coast Resources, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2018-10-04· cited 34×
• City of Houston v. Carlson
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2012-12-04· cited 23×
• Porretto v. Texas General Land Office
  Texas Supreme Court· 2014-07-03· cited 9×
• North Texas Municipal Water District v. Jennie Ball A/K/A Jenny Tissing and Jeffrey Tissing
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2015-04-30· cited 8×
• Milton v. United States
  Federal Circuit· 2022-06-02· cited 6×
• Lindemann Properties, Ltd. v. Campbell
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-06-22· cited 5×
• Union Pacific Railroad v. Utah Department of Transportation
  Utah Supreme Court· 2013-07-09· cited 4×
• Texas Rice Land Partners, Ltd. v. Denbury Green Pipeline-Texas, LLC
  Texas Supreme Court· 2012-08-17· cited 4×
• Sansotta v. Town of Nags Head
  E.D. North Carolina· 2014-11-06· cited 4×
• Key Operating & Equipment, Inc. v. Will Hegar and Loree Hegar
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2013-01-07· cited 3×
• Jae Kim, Fannin Food Mart, Inc., and the Real Property Known as 2111 Fannin Street v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2014-12-10· cited 2×
• Dos Republicas Coal Partnership v. David Saucedo, as Floodplain Administrator and County Judge of the Maverick County Commissioners Court, and the Maverick County Commissioners Court
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-10-08· cited 1×
• Jae Kim, Fannin Food Mart, Inc., and the Real Property Known as 2111 Fannin Street v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2014-10-09
• Unnamed case
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-12-04
• Angela Mae Brannan, Individually and as Independent of the Estate of Bob Albert Brannan v. State of Texas
  Texas Supreme Court· 2013-01-25
• Angela Mae Brannan, Individually and as Independent of the Estate of Bob Albert Brannan v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2014-05-01

Cites

86 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City
  Supreme Court· 1978-10-02· cited 3,324×
• West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
  Supreme Court· 1943-06-14· cited 2,477×
• Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-29· cited 2,333×
• Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon
  Supreme Court· 1922-12-11· cited 1,990×
• Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-30· cited 1,570×
• Nollan v. California Coastal Commission
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-26· cited 1,301×
• Fitzgerald v. Advanced Spine Fixation Systems, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1999-08-26· cited 1,058×
• Dolan v. City of Tigard
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-24· cited 1,023×
• United States v. General Motors Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1945-04-02· cited 900×
• Kelo v. City of New London
  Supreme Court· 2005-06-23· cited 591×
• Philadelphia Co. v. Stimson
  Supreme Court· 1912-03-04· cited 450×
• Eggemeyer v. Eggemeyer
  Texas Supreme Court· 1977-07-13· cited 400×
• Schneider National Carriers, Inc. v. Bates
  Texas Supreme Court· 2004-10-01· cited 346×
• Bute v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1948-06-07· cited 327×
• Marcus Cable Associates, L.P. v. Krohn
  Texas Supreme Court· 2002-11-05· cited 315×
• Barney v. Keokuk
  Supreme Court· 1877-04-23· cited 297×
• Westgate, Ltd. v. State
  Texas Supreme Court· 1992-12-02· cited 290×
• Drye v. Eagle Rock Ranch, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1963-01-30· cited 282×
• Oregon Ex Rel. State Land Board v. Corvallis Sand & Gravel Co.
  Supreme Court· 1977-01-12· cited 238×
• Holmstrom v. Lee
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2000-08-10· cited 221×