Doe v. Angelina County, Texas

How courts have described this case

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

• granting the plaintiff’s motion for partial summary judgment on his § 1983 due process claim against the county, which asserted that he was unlawfully imprisoned for failing to pay a fine as a result of a county’s policy
• dismissing false imprisonment claim against county sheriff in his official capacity
• “In the absence of some procedure for determining the reasons for a party’s failure to pay a fíne, it is difficult to conceive how a governmental entity will avoid discriminating against indigents on the basis of their respective economic statuses.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1993-09-15· cited 27×
• ODonnell v. Harris County
  S.D. Texas· 2017-04-28· cited 16×
• Ziahonna Teagan v. The City of McDonough, Georgia
  Eleventh Circuit· 2020-02-11· cited 15×
• Walker v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1992-12-03· cited 12×
• Davenport v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1993-07-20· cited 10×
• De Luna v. Hidalgo County
  S.D. Texas· 2012-02-15· cited 9×
• Odonnell v. Harris County
  S.D. Texas· 2016-12-16· cited 5×
• Fant v. City of Ferguson
  E.D. Missouri· 2015-05-26· cited 4×
• Rojero v. El Paso County
  W.D. Texas· 2016-04-28· cited 1×