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Acord v. General Motors Corp.

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Superseded by statute
Court
Supreme Court of Texas
Citation
669 S.W.2d 111
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
28 of 28
Citing cases (total)
28
Treatment dates
2021
Superseded by statute
A reviewed court treats this case as superseded by later legislation. Acord v. General Motors Corp. was superseded by statute on its design defect jury instruction rule. All 28 flagged citations have been read, and one confirmed treatment is listed below.
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Emerson Electric Co. v. Johnson held that Texas's later products liability statute requires instructions beyond the charge Acord had deemed sufficient. Later opinions continued to apply Acord's separate rules on preserving objections and excluding unnecessary instructions in other settings.

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 Acord v. General Motors Corp.; 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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Treatments

Superseded by statute

  • The Texas Supreme Court held that later legislation displaced Acord's rule barring instructions beyond its approved design defect charge.

    Emerson Electric Co. v. Johnson · Supreme Court of Texas · filed

    Acord and Turner have been abrogated by intervening legislation affecting products-liability cases and no longer accurately state the law.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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