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In re Transtexas Gas Corporation

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Good law
Court
Fifth Circuit
Citation
303 F.3d 571
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
163 of 163
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. In re TranTexas Gas Corporation remains good law: all 163 flagged citations have been read, and none confirms adverse treatment. Later courts continue to apply its Rule 59(e) formulation that such a motion “calls into question the correctness of a judgment” and its rule on the effect of a notice of appeal.
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Nearby criticism and abrogation language concerned other decisions. A withdrawn Allen v. Envirogreen Landscape Professionals, Inc. opinion was replaced by a revised opinion that also applied TranTexas favorably.

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.

163 citations to In re Transtexas Gas Corporation 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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