Washington v. Walker County’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2011
14 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · Freeman v. State · Travelers Insurance v. Marshall · Director of the Department of Agriculture & Environment v. Printing Industries Ass'n of Texas · State of Texas v. Central Power Light Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In certain suits, a person is allowed to recover attorney’s fees from an individual or a corporation. Tex.Civ.Practice & Remedies Code Ann. sec. 38.001 (Vernon Supp.1986). Appellees do not fall within the purview of the statute, however, because their duty to the appellant is a duty owed in their official, not individual, capacities. Appellees, in their official capacities, are not a “corporation” under the ordinary meaning of the term. See Commissioners Court v. Rodgers, 691 S.W.2d 753, 757 (Tex.App. — Tyler 1985, no writ); State v. Central Power & Light Co., 139 Tex. 51, 55-56 , 161 S.W.2d 766, 768 (1942); City of Austin v. North Austin State Bank, 631 S.W.2d 564, 568-79 (Tex.App. — Austin .1982, no writ). In prosecuting a criminal case, the State and Walker County were acting in a governmental capacity and not in a proprietary capacity; therefore appellant is not entitled to attorney’s fees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bodisch“By the terms of article III § 18, of the constitution of Texas, among other things, it is provided, “nor shall any member of the Legislature be interested, either directly or indirectly, in any contract with the State, or any county thereof, authorized by any law passed during the term for which he shall have been elected.” We think it apparent that the intention was to absolutely prohibit any person from entering into a contract with the State or County authorized by statute passed by a legislature of which such person was a member ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cornett v. Damon
How this case has been treated — in progress
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