McKinley v. Drozd

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a party does not need a net recovery to be awarded attorney’s fees; all that is required is that the party prevail on a just claim
• recognizing former strict construction and amendment mandating liberal construction
• construing predecessor to chapter 38 of Civil Practice and Remedies Code and concluding that party was entitled to attorney’s fees even though its damages were offset by opposing party’s counterclaim
• noting 218 S.W.3d at 69 (citing Tony Gullo, 212 S.W.3d at 313
• DTPA plaintiff awarded attorney’s fees even where DTPA award entirely offset by opposing claim
• proper construction allows attorney’s fee recovery even if claim’s amount entirely offset by an opposing party’s claim because of legislative intent to discourage unnecessarily litigation, encourage defense of a just claim, and legislative mandate to construe chapter liberally

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Beaumont Bank, N.A. v. Buller
  Texas Supreme Court· 1991-04-03· cited 1,110×
• State Farm Life Insurance Co v. Beaston
  Texas Supreme Court· 1995-10-27· cited 431×
• Nabours v. Longview Savings & Loan Ass'n
  Texas Supreme Court· 1985-07-17· cited 164×
• Gates v. City of Dallas
  Texas Supreme Court· 1986-02-12· cited 145×
• Blizzard v. Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1988-08-03· cited 110×
• G.R.A.V.I.T.Y. Enterprises, Inc. v. Reece Supply Co.
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2005-12-13· cited 98×
• Allstate Insurance Co. v. Bonner
  Texas Supreme Court· 2001-05-10· cited 89×
• Continental Dredging, Inc. v. De-Kaizered, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2003-10-22· cited 89×
• Smith v. Smith
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1988-07-21· cited 87×
• Marcus, Stowell & Beye Government Securities, Inc. v. Jefferson Investment Corporation
  Fifth Circuit· 1986-08-18· cited 73×
• Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Long Trusts
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1993-06-15· cited 71×
• Essex Crane Rental Corp. v. Striland Construction Co.
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1988-06-14· cited 66×
• Murrco Agency, Inc. v. Ryan
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1990-11-07· cited 64×
• in Re Xerox Corporation and Xerox State Healthcare, LLC F/K/A Acs State Healthcare, Llc
  Texas Supreme Court· 2018-06-22· cited 63×
• Matthews v. Candlewood Builders, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1985-03-06· cited 59×
• Smith v. Levine
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1995-10-27· cited 53×
• Doctors Hospital 1997, L.P. v. Sambuca Houston, L.P.
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2005-01-13· cited 51×
• Arguelles v. Kaplan
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1987-06-30· cited 42×
• George Grubbs Enterprises, Inc. v. Bien
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1994-07-27· cited 41×
• Jakab v. Gran Villa Townhouses Homeowners Ass'n, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2004-11-18· cited 41×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Smith v. Baldwin
  Texas Supreme Court· 1980-12-31· cited 268×
• Woods v. Littleton
  Texas Supreme Court· 1977-07-26· cited 250×
• Tenneco Oil Company v. Padre Drilling Company
  Texas Supreme Court· 1970-04-29· cited 95×
• Greene v. Bearden Enterprises, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1980-04-10· cited 38×
• Jon-T Farms, Inc. v. Goodpasture, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1977-06-13· cited 33×
• Building Concepts, Inc. v. Duncan
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1984-02-16· cited 33×
• Hoffman v. Deck Masters, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1983-12-08· cited 22×
• Guerra v. Brumlow
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1982-02-24· cited 19×
• Widmer v. Stamps
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1984-01-12· cited 16×
• Durham v. St. John
  Texas Supreme Court· 1983-02-09· cited 12×
• Latham v. Dement
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1966-10-28· cited 11×
• Esparza v. Nolan Wells Communications, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1983-04-13· cited 11×
• Paddock Engineering Co. of Texas v. Rife
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1958-02-07· cited 8×
• L Q Motor Inns, Inc. v. Boysen
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1973-12-19· cited 8×
• Johnny Morrow's Wrecking Crew, Inc. v. Slate
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1963-05-03· cited 6×
• Drozd v. McKinley
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1984-04-30· cited 3×
• Birds Construction, Inc. v. McKay
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1983-09-01· cited 2×