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Union Pump Co. v. Allbritton

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

Abrogated
Court
Supreme Court of Texas
Citation
898 S.W.2d 773
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
34 of 34
Citing cases (total)
34
Treatment dates
2007
Abrogated
A reviewed court treats this case as abrogated by later authority. Union Pump Co. v. Allbritton was abrogated on its definition of producing cause. In Ford Motor Co. v. Ledesma, the Supreme Court of Texas rejected the older definition that Union Pump had quoted and required a jury instruction stating that a producing cause must be both a substantial factor and a cause without which the injury would not have occurred.
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Later, In re Molina described Ledesma as abrogating Union Pump in part on other grounds. Union Pump's ruling that a remote condition alone does not establish legal causation continues to be cited. All 34 flagged citations have been read; the one confirmed treatment is listed below.

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.

34 later cases cite Union Pump Co. v. Allbritton; 34 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

Abrogated

  • The Supreme Court of Texas rejected the producing-cause definition quoted in Union Pump and required a substantial-factor and but-for-cause instruction.

    Ford Motor Co. v. Ledesma · Supreme Court of Texas · filed

    To say that a producing cause is “an efficient, exciting, or contributing cause that, in a natural sequence, produces the incident in question” is incomplete and, more importantly, provides little concrete guidance to the jury.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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