Acker v. Texas Water Commission

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that habit or custom of a person doing a particular act is relevant in determining his conduct on a particular occasion
• assuming that the legislature is aware of preexisting judicial opinions in a particular area when legislating in that area
• stating that under TOMA, citizens “are entitled not only to know what government decides but to observe how and why every decision is reached”
• noting that the Legislature is presumed to have enacted a statute with complete knowledge of the existing law and with reference to it
• holding officials cannot be allowed to meet and deliberate privately about contested proceedings without eviscerating TOMA
• noting that statutory repeals by implication are not favored, and legislative enactments covering subject dealt with by older law, but not repealing it, should be harmonized whenever possible so as to give effect to both

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

532 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Entergy Gulf States, Inc. v. Summers
  Texas Supreme Court· 2009-04-03· cited 758×
• Railroad Commission v. Texas Citizens for a Safe Future & Clean Water
  Texas Supreme Court· 2011-03-11· cited 407×
• Leland v. Brandal
  Texas Supreme Court· 2008-06-13· cited 398×
• Westgate, Ltd. v. State
  Texas Supreme Court· 1992-12-02· cited 290×
• Wichita County, Texas v. Hart
  Texas Supreme Court· 1996-04-12· cited 265×
• Mary Louise Serafine v. Alexander Blunt and Ashley Blunt
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-07-01· cited 202×
• Terrazas v. Ramirez
  Texas Supreme Court· 1991-12-17· cited 174×
• Fish v. Tandy Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1997-08-14· cited 160×
• University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston v. Gutierrez
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-11-20· cited 147×
• World Help v. Leisure Lifestyles, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1998-09-24· cited 144×
• Argonaut Insurance Co. v. Baker
  Texas Supreme Court· 2002-06-20· cited 142×
• City of Dallas v. Stewart
  Texas Supreme Court· 2012-01-27· cited 132×
• City of San Antonio v. Fourth Court of Appeals
  Texas Supreme Court· 1991-09-11· cited 128×
• Texas Department of Insurance v. American Home Assurance Co.
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1999-07-29· cited 118×
• Upjohn Co. v. Rylander
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2000-10-19· cited 115×
• Rowntree v. Hunsucker
  Texas Supreme Court· 1992-05-27· cited 115×
• In Re Allen
  Texas Supreme Court· 2012-05-18· cited 112×
• Shook v. Walden
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2010-02-18· cited 110×
• Stanley Bacon, Jr. v. Texas Historical Commission
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2013-09-12· cited 107×
• Metropolitan Air Research Testing Authority, Inc. v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1992-07-08· cited 105×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1985-05-01· cited 7,748×
• Cox Enterprises v. Bd. of Tr. of Austin ISD
  Texas Supreme Court· 1986-04-09· cited 184×
• McBride v. Clayton
  Texas Supreme Court· 1942-12-02· cited 130×
• Gordon v. Lake
  Texas Supreme Court· 1962-04-04· cited 86×
• Conley v. Daughters of the Republic
  Texas Supreme Court· 1913-04-30· cited 80×
• Standard v. Sadler
  Texas Supreme Court· 1964-10-07· cited 62×
• Smith County v. Thornton
  Texas Supreme Court· 1986-06-18· cited 45×
• Cooper v. Hall
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1972-12-11· cited 29×
• Ellis v. Mortgage and Trust, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1988-06-08· cited 27×
• George Linskie Co. v. Miller-Picking Corp.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1971-01-20· cited 24×
• Allstate Insurance Company v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1971-09-22· cited 22×
• Audiomedia, Inc. v. Rollins Outdoor Advertising, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1972-02-02· cited 7×
• Texas Water Commission v. Acker
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1989-05-17· cited 4×
• Knopf v. Dallas-Fort Worth Roofing Supply Co.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1990-02-15· cited 1×