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Downs v. City of Abilene

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

Good law
Court
Supreme Court of Texas
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
52 of 52
Citing cases (total)
52
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Downs v. City of Abilene remains good law: all 52 flagged citations have been read, and none confirms adverse treatment. The one opinion that clearly cited Downs used it as authority for dismissing a moot injunction appeal.
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The other opinions either did not identify Downs or discussed the disposition of a party's appellate issue or another case.

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.

52 later cases cite Downs v. City of Abilene; 52 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 52 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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