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Ex Parte Caldwell

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Good law
Court
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Citation
383 S.W.2d 587
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
83 of 83
Citing cases (total)
217
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Ex Parte Caldwell remains good law: all 83 flagged citations have been read, with no adverse treatment confirmed. The reviewed opinions applied Caldwell's rule that a court's jurisdiction must be legally invoked and that a court without jurisdiction has no power to act.
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Nearby “overruled” language instead disposed of appellate issues or reported the history of State v. Roberts, State v. Olsen, Ex parte Busby, Ex parte Paprskar, and other authorities. One source cluster concatenated Henry Lee Moore v. State, which did not cite Caldwell, with an identifiable fragment of Michelle Smith v. State; the three separately indexed Smith opinions were each reviewed and applied Caldwell positively.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

217 later cases cite Ex Parte Caldwell; 83 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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No reviewed court has overruled or limited this case.

Every one of the 83 flagged citations was read, and each turned out to be something other than adverse treatment: a routine application, a party's argument the court rejected, or the case itself discussing older law. That reading is the finding this page exists to report.

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