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Walker v. Packer

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Criticized by some courtsin review
351 of 353 flagged citations read · 99.4%
Court
Supreme Court of Texas
Citation
827 S.W.2d 833
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
351 of 353
Citing cases (total)
8,808
Treatment dates
2008
Criticized by some courts · in review
At least one reviewed court has criticized this case’s reasoning. No reviewed court has overruled it. Criticized. The Supreme Court of Texas called Walker v. Packer's categorical approach to adequate appellate remedies ad hoc in In re McAllen Medical Center, Inc. That criticism is listed below.
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The case is still in review: 351 of 353 flagged citations have been read, and the text of two citing opinions could not be retrieved, so they remain unread. Other reviewed opinions continued to apply Walker's mandamus, abuse-of-discretion, adequate-remedy, and discovery rules.

The treatments below are confirmed; unread citations could still change the overall status.
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.

8,808 later cases cite Walker v. Packer; 353 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading; the progress bar above tracks how many have been read so far. 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 Walker's categorical approach to deciding whether an appeal is an adequate remedy, while saying its own holding did not depart from Walker.

    In re McAllen Medical Center, Inc. · Supreme Court of Texas · filed

    There is no reason this analysis should entangle appellate courts in incidental trial court rulings any more than Walker’s ad hoc categorical approach.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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