Jose Horacio Hernandez v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that both are nonbinding persuasive authority
• “The district courts ... owe no obedience ... to the decisions of the courts of appeals in other circuits.”
• over the strong dissent of Judge (now Chief Justice) Burger, who, however, does not mention the possibility of ratification
• subrogation, of cause of action against ted party, by operation of law where insurer pays insured’s covered claim
• “[d]ecisions of district courts and other courts of appeal are, of course, not binding on us and are looked to only for their persuasive effect”; “[i]f they fail to persuade by the use of sound and logical reasoning, they will not be followed, no matter how great their number”
• totally subrogated insurer is real party in interest

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).