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← 979 SW2D 414 - Letson v. Barnes

Letson v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
November 2011
most recently cited

14 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Walling v. Metcalfe · State v. Morales · Texas Liquor Control Board v. Canyon Creek Land Corp. · Millwrights Local Union No. 2484 v. Rust Engineering Co. · Miller Paper Co. v. Roberts Paper Co.

Most-quoted passages

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  1. “an appeal of a temporary injunction is not a vehicle which imbues the court with jurisdiction to address interlocutory matters outside the scope of section 51.014 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code.” Letson v. Barnes, 979 S.W.2d 414, 417 (Tex.App.—Amarillo 1998, pet. denied). When a litigant challenges both appealable and unap-pealable interlocutory orders, we”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[s]imply put, if the court has no authority to act, it can hardly be said that the court's action is valid.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

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