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Sax v. Votteler

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Criticized by some courts
Court
Supreme Court of Texas
Citation
648 S.W.2d 661
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
118 of 118
Citing cases (total)
566
Treatment dates
1994
Criticized by some courts
At least one reviewed court has criticized this case’s reasoning. No reviewed court has overruled it. Sax v. Votteler has been criticized, and all 118 flagged citations have been processed; the one confirmed treatment is listed below. Hogan v. Hallman criticized the common-law/statutory distinction used in Sax as less applicable to minor wrongful-death claimants, although the intermediate court acknowledged that it remained bound by the Texas Supreme Court's rule.
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The other available opinions applied or reaffirmed Sax, reported another authority's history, did not cite Sax, or used the nearby treatment language for a statute, appellate issue, or unrelated precedent.

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.

566 later cases cite Sax v. Votteler; 118 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

Criticized

  • The court criticized Sax's common-law/statutory distinction as less applicable to minor wrongful-death claimants, although it followed Sax as binding Texas Supreme Court precedent.

    Hogan v. Hallman · Texas Court of Appeals, Fourteenth District · filed

    The rationale behind the common law-statutory distinction set out in Sax and Rose also seems less applicable here.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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