Texas Department of Transportation v. Needham

Decided May 9, 2002. James A. Baker wrote the opinion for the court.

82 S.W.3d 314 · Cited 671 times

Official text

Read the full opinion (CourtListener)

We don’t host opinion text or publish a summary of this ruling — read the official public-domain text for the court’s holding and reasoning, and verify against the primary source.

Precedents cited

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.

• Wichita County, Texas v. Hart · 917 S.W.2d 779
• Dallas Independent School District v. Finlan · 27 S.W.3d 220
• Transport Insurance Co. v. Faircloth · 898 S.W.2d 269
• Barr v. Bernhard · 562 S.W.2d 844
• National Liability & Fire Insurance Co. v. Allen · 15 S.W.3d 525
• Tijerina v. City of Tyler · 846 S.W.2d 825
• Mayhew v. Town of Sunnyvale · 964 S.W.2d 922
• Fitzgerald v. Advanced Spine Fixation Systems, Inc. · 996 S.W.2d 864
• Bradford v. Vento · 48 S.W.3d 749
• Havlen v. McDougall · 22 S.W.3d 343

Cited by

Later opinions in our collection that cite this decision.

• The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas v. Larry M. Gentilello, M.D. · 398 S.W.3d 680
• Hunt County Community Supervision and Corrections Department v. Christina Gaston · 451 S.W.3d 410
• University of Houston v. Barth · 265 S.W.3d 607
• City of Houston v. Levingston · 221 S.W.3d 204
• Texas Department of Human Services v. Oliver Okoli · 440 S.W.3d 611
• City of Weatherford v. Catron · 83 S.W.3d 261
• Texas Department of Human Services v. Okoli · 317 S.W.3d 800
• Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services, Successor in Interest to the Former Texas Rehabilitation Commission v. Richard Howard · 182 S.W.3d 393
• Texas Health & Human Services Commission v. McMillen · 483 S.W.3d 576
• Moore v. City of Wylie · 319 S.W.3d 778
• Rosaena Resendez v. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality · 391 S.W.3d 312
• Reininger v. Texas Building & Procurement Commission · 259 S.W.3d 364
• City of Waco v. Lopez · 183 S.W.3d 825
• Moreno v. Texas a & M University-Kingsville · 339 S.W.3d 902
• Yusuf Elias Farran v. Canutillo Independent School District · 420 S.W.3d 65
• State v. Lueck · 290 S.W.3d 876
• Housing Authority of the City of El Paso v. Rangel · 131 S.W.3d 542
• Roberts v. Titus County Memorial Hospital · 159 S.W.3d 764
• Rogers v. City of Fort Worth · 89 S.W.3d 265
• Town of Flower Mound v. Teague · 111 S.W.3d 742
• City of Port Isabel v. Pinnell · 207 S.W.3d 394
• Bates v. Pecos Cnty. · 546 S.W.3d 277
• Office of the Attorney General of Texas v. Laura G. Rodriguez · 420 S.W.3d 99
• Dallas County v. Logan · 359 S.W.3d 367
• Academy of Oriental Medicine, L.L.C. v. Andra · 173 S.W.3d 184

Explore from here

James A. Baker’s Judicial Record · Tex. · How we source opinions

Source: opinion metadata, authorship, and citation counts from the Free Law Project’s CourtListener bulk data (public domain). Data last verified 2026-07-09. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).