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Chessher v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Good law
Court
Supreme Court of Texas
Citation
658 S.W.2d 563
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
28 of 28
Citing cases (total)
28
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Chessher v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. remains good law: all 28 flagged citations have been read, and none adversely treated its holding. Texas courts continue to apply its rule that summary judgment cannot dispose of a claim the motion did not address.
More on how this was screened

Pinnacle Data Services, Inc. v. Gillen rejected a proposed reading of Chessher that would also require remanding properly adjudicated claims; the Texas Supreme Court's later partial-remand decisions did not disturb Chessher's rule about unaddressed claims.

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.

28 later cases cite Chessher v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.; 28 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 28 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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