Ex parte Jackson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that $1,450 \fine\ relator was ordered to pay as sanction for discovery abuse is a debt and the order to pay it may not be enforced by imprisonment
• commitment order imprisoned relator for failure to pay a debt and “[s]ince [relator] could not be imprisoned for at least one of the alleged acts of contempt, it follows, and we so hold, that the entire commitment order is tainted and void”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jackson v. Crawford
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1987-02-19· cited 8×
• in Re Lea Percy McLaurin
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-04-30· cited 8×
• in Re Donald H. Smith and Wife, Pat Smith
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2003-03-12

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Arndt v. Farris
  Texas Supreme Court· 1982-03-10· cited 157×
• Ex Parte Dustman
  Texas Supreme Court· 1976-06-09· cited 64×
• Ex Parte Yates
  Texas Supreme Court· 1965-02-10· cited 37×
• Ex Parte Rogers
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 1982-05-11· cited 31×
• In Re Roberts
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1979-07-13· cited 2×