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sweeping rule in Texas

6 Texas opinions name it 3 courts 1940–2019 0 in the last five years

The cases below were cited by Texas courts in a sentence that names this issue. Sides come from how each citing opinion treated the case (Syfertize flag on that citation), so a case can appear on both: that is where the law is contested. A red or yellow chip is the case's own overall treatment.

Followed or applied (3)

CaseFollowedCited
Overton Memorial Hospital v. McGuiregreen
tex · 1975 · cited in 1 Texas opinions naming this issue, 2017–2017
1 sentence

2017Cf. Overton, 518 S.W.2d at 528-29 (plaintiff “alleged that the Hospital was negligent in providing him a bed not equipped with side rails;” in reviewing summary judgment evidence, court stated that “we must assume that the Hospital had a duty to install bed rails and was negligent in not doing so”).

11
Bellotti v. Bairdgreen
scotus · 1979 · cited in 1 Texas opinions naming this issue, 1987–1987
1 sentence

1987See id.

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Walder v. United Statesgreen
scotus · 1954 · cited in 1 Texas opinions naming this issue, 1973–1973
2 sentences

1973In a somewhat similar case, Walder v. United States, 347 U.S. 62, 65 , 74 S.Ct. 354 , 98 L.Ed. 503, 507 (1954), impeachment was held permissible even though the charges had been dropped in an earlier case before trial.

1973In a somewhat similar case, Walder v. United States, 347 U.S. 62, 65 , 74 S.Ct. 354 , 98 L.Ed. 503, 507 (1954), impeachment was held permissible even though the charges had been dropped in an earlier case before trial.

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Distinguished, questioned or overruled (0)

CaseNegativeCited
No negative-treatment citations attached to this issue in Texas. Read the followed side critically anyway.

Also cited on this issue (6)

CaseCitedYears
In Re the City of Georgetown green
tex · 2001
1 sentence

2019The Supreme Court also concluded that the Legislature did not intend “to effectuate such a sweeping waiver of the work-product and attorney-client privileges” based on the words “unless the category of information is expressly made confidential under other law.” Id. (quoting TEX.

12019–2019
Davis v. F. W. Financial Services, Inc. green
orctapp · 2013
1 sentence

2018The court explained that the “primacy of a prior perfected secured creditor’s claim to collateral is the ‘touchstone’ of Article 9, which starts with a sweeping rule of priority and then carves out exceptions to that rule,” but that priority “is not capable of being lost in the manner that the ‘waiver’ approach suggests.” Id.

12018–2018
City of North Richland Hills, Texas v. Laura Friend green
tex · 2012
1 sentence

2017The supreme court’s later decisions in City of North Richland Hills, 370 S.W.3d at 372 , and Bishop, 156 S.W.3d at 584 , undercut reliance on Hampton to support a sweeping rule equating absence of use with absence of the unused component.

12017–2017
TEXAS a & M UNIVERSITY v. Bishop green
tex · 2005
1 sentence

2017The supreme court’s later decisions in City of North Richland Hills, 370 S.W.3d at 372 , and Bishop, 156 S.W.3d at 584 , undercut reliance on Hampton to support a sweeping rule equating absence of use with absence of the unused component.

12017–2017
Potter v. Robison neutral
tex · 1909
2 sentences

1940ROBISON, 102 Tex. 448 , 119 S. W. 90 , as follows: "The ,provisoabove copied is to be restrict- ed and applied to the preceding enacting clause of the statute and its effect is to limit the scope ,ofthat clause and to except out of its general terms the case stated in the proviso which otherwise would be embraced in the language used. . . .1, "A proviso is substantially an exception. hits natural and appropriate office is to restrain or qualify some preceding matter." 39 TMhS JURISPRUDENCE, p. 192, par. 102.

1940ROBISON, 102 Tex. 448 , 119 S. W. 90 , as follows: "The ,provisoabove copied is to be restrict- ed and applied to the preceding enacting clause of the statute and its effect is to limit the scope ,ofthat clause and to except out of its general terms the case stated in the proviso which otherwise would be embraced in the language used. . . .1, "A proviso is substantially an exception. hits natural and appropriate office is to restrain or qualify some preceding matter." 39 TMhS JURISPRUDENCE, p. 192, par. 102.

11940–1940
State v. Country Club neutral
texapp · 1914
1 sentence

1940COUNTRY CLUB, 173 S.W. 570 , 580: "It is the usual and the only safe method, where en act is intended to embrace all but a few, to first enact a sweeping clause, which in- cludes everybody, and then, by proviso or subse- quent articles, to name those who are intended to be exempted. , . .I' The effect of such a proviso or exception is des- cribed by the Supreme Court of Texas in the case of POTTER V.

11940–1940

Where else courts name it

CA 29 (1972–2025) PA 21 (1928–2025) NY 16 (1902–2026) WA 14 (2000–2025) MI 9 (1970–2025) IL 8 (1965–2021) MO 7 (1889–2023) OH 7 (1999–2015) GA 7 (2006–2026) CO 6 (1918–2026) TX 6 (1940–2019) MN 6 (1976–2025) OR 5 (1932–2022) ND 5 (1992–2022) NJ 5 (1959–2025) MA 4 (1971–2021) DC 4 (1993–2014) TN 4 (1947–2026) RI 4 (1998–2010) WI 4 (2008–2024) UT 3 (1994–2025) MD 3 (1976–1998) CT 3 (2004–2015) KS 2 (2021–2022) NC 2 (1983–2025) AZ 2 (2020–2022) IN 2 (1998–2005) DE 2 (2023–2023) WV 2 (2006–2023) FL 2 (1996–2022) NM 2 (2004–2009) AL 2 (2005–2014) AR 2 (1885–1989)

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