State Court of Appeals / Tex. App.

Retzlaff v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice

Decided March 4, 2004. Laura Carter Higley wrote the opinion for the court.

135 S.W.3d 731 · Cited 63 times

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Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

Randall's Food Markets, Inc. v. Johnson · 891 S.W.2d 640
Goswami v. Metropolitan Savings & Loan Ass'n · 751 S.W.2d 487
State Department of Highways & Public Transportation v. Payne · 838 S.W.2d 235
State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. S.S. · 858 S.W.2d 374
Greater Houston Transportation Co. v. Phillips · 801 S.W.2d 523
General Services Commission v. Little-Tex Insulation Co. · 39 S.W.3d 591
El Chico Corp. v. Poole · 732 S.W.2d 306
Otis Engineering Corp. v. Clark · 668 S.W.2d 307
State v. Wood Oil Distributing, Inc. · 751 S.W.2d 863
Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission v. IT-Davy · 74 S.W.3d 849
Kindred v. Con/Chem, Inc. · 650 S.W.2d 61
McConnell v. Southside Independent School District · 858 S.W.2d 337
Great American Reserve Insurance Co. v. San Antonio Plumbing Supply Co. · 391 S.W.2d 41
Dallas Cty. Mental Health and Mental Retardation v. Bossley · 968 S.W.2d 339
City of Hidalgo Ambulance Service v. Lira · 17 S.W.3d 300
Wheat v. Texas Department of Corrections · 715 S.W.2d 362

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Laura Beeman and Janet Lock v. Brad Livingston, in His Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice · 468 S.W.3d 534
Texas State Technical College v. Beavers · 218 S.W.3d 258
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