B.C. v. Steak N Shake Operations, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “assault claims against individual assail- ants do not fall within the scope of the TCHRA” and that the “TCHRA . . . provide[s] a claim for individuals against their employers” (emphasis in origi- nal)
• explaining that “Texas courts look to analogous federal law in applying the state Act”
• “TCHRA is a statutory scheme created to provide a claim for individuals against their employers” (emphasis in original)
• “[T]he Legislature did not intend for individual assailants to receive [the benefits the TCHRA provides to employers] simply because those assaults occurred in the workplace and not elsewhere.”
• “[C]ivil remedies against individual assailants have long existed under Texas common law[,]” and “no evidence suggests that the Legislature intended to abrogate common law assault when it enacted the TCHRA[.]”
• “The gravamen of a claim is its true nature, as opposed to what is simply alleged or artfully pled, allowing courts to determine the rights and liabilities of the involved parties.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Way v. City of Missouri City
  Fifth Circuit· 2025-04-09· cited 11×
• B.C. v. Steak N Shake Operations, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-08-30· cited 9×
• Dennis K. White v. Luis Calvache and Wife, Norma Calvache, Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, Horne & Associates, P.C., and L. Scott Horne, as Substitute Trustee
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2018-01-24
• Alamo Heights Independent School District v. Catherine Clark
  Texas Supreme Court· 2018-04-06
• Leslie Broderick v. Universal Health Services, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2018-04-18
• Pura Vida Spirits Co., LLC v. Talent Tree, LLC
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2018-06-27
• in the Interest of K.K.W., a Minor Child
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2018-08-20
• Brian Jackson, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Charles Wherry Jackson v. Michelin North America, Inc. and Mal Enterprises, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2018-09-10
• Hunter Etcheverry v. Hugh Hunter Lankford
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2018-12-18
• NFTD, LLC F/K/A Bernardo Group, LLC Bernardo Holdings, LLC Peter J. Cooper And Jacquiline Miller v. Haynes & Boone L.L.P. and Arthur L. Howard
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2019-12-17
• Erin Walker v. Pegasus Eventing, LLC, Ellen Doughty-Hume And Alistair Hume
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2020-01-07
• B.C. v. Steak N Shake Operations, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 2020-03-27
• Stetson Roane v. Halcy Martin Dean
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2020-04-30
• B.C. v. Steak N Shake Operations, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2020-11-02
• Brittany Russell v. Allstate Insurance Company
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2021-08-30
• Rafael Friedrichsen v. Jose Ramon Rodriguez, Tasha Hardy, Dana Darden, Lisa Pierini, Rosalva Guedea, and BBVA Compass Bank, N.A.
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2021-10-26
• Texas Department of State Health Services v. Gustavo Resendiz
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2021-11-29
• Augustin Rivera, Jr., Teresa Ereon Giltner, Harold Odom, Barbara Ellis, Anna M. McKim, Cynthia Eva Hujar Orr, C. Alfred MacKenzie, Dwaine M. Massey, and Carlos R. Soltero, in Their Official Capacities as Members of the Texas Board of Law Examiners v. Deborah Sonnenschein
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2022-06-01
• in Re Breviloba, Llc
  Texas Supreme Court· 2022-06-24
• International Bank of Commerce-Oklahoma v. Lane Gorman Trubitt, LLC, Collin Kanelakos, and Patrick Reilly
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2022-08-03

Cites

21 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-19· cited 5,248×
• Mann Frankfort Stein & Lipp Advisors, Inc. v. Fielding
  Texas Supreme Court· 2009-04-17· cited 1,889×
• State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. S.S.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1993-09-10· cited 1,051×
• Rogers v. Ricane Enterprises, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1989-06-14· cited 683×
• Quantum Chemical Corp. v. Toennies
  Texas Supreme Court· 2001-05-24· cited 495×
• Waffle House, Inc. v. Williams
  Texas Supreme Court· 2010-06-11· cited 477×
• GTE Southwest, Inc. v. Bruce
  Texas Supreme Court· 1999-07-01· cited 441×
• Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. v. Zeltwanger
  Texas Supreme Court· 2004-08-27· cited 427×
• Specialty Retailers, Inc. v. DeMoranville
  Texas Supreme Court· 1996-12-13· cited 276×
• the City of Watauga v. Russell Gordon
  Texas Supreme Court· 2014-06-06· cited 155×
• Satterfield v. Satterfield
  Texas Supreme Court· 1969-03-26· cited 152×
• Yamada v. Friend
  Texas Supreme Court· 2010-12-17· cited 144×
• Abutahoun v. Dow Chemical Co.
  Texas Supreme Court· 2015-05-08· cited 115×
• Brenda L. BROCK, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee
  Ninth Circuit· 1995-09-11· cited 98×
• Smith v. Sewell
  Texas Supreme Court· 1993-09-10· cited 93×
• Gonzales v. Willis
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1999-05-25· cited 90×
• Dutcher v. Owens
  Texas Supreme Court· 1983-03-23· cited 88×
• Christus Health Gulf Coast v. Carswell
  Texas Supreme Court· 2016-05-20· cited 81×
• Seabright Insurance Company v. Maximina Lopez, Beneficiary of Candelario Lopez
  Texas Supreme Court· 2015-06-12· cited 78×
• Energy Service Co. of Bowie, Inc. v. Superior Snubbing Services, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 2007-08-24· cited 67×

Other cases named B.C. v. Steak N Shake Operations, Inc.

7 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• B.C. v. Steak N Shake Operations, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-08-30· cited 9×
• B.C. v. Steak N Shake Operations, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-04-13· cited 4×
• B.C. v. Steak N Shake Operations, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2014-10-24
• B.C. v. Steak N Shake Operations, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2014-08-13
• B.C. v. Steak N Shake Operations, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 2020-03-27
• B.C. v. Steak N Shake Operations, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2020-11-02
• B.C. v. Steak N Shake Operations, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2020-11-02