Nelson v. Williams

How courts have described this case

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

• holding res judicata applies to a final divorce decree to the same extent that it applies to any other final judgment
• holding res judicata barred claims for breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, civil conspiracy, and negligence because underlying matter, i.e., fraud concerning the value of the community estate, could have been litigated in divorce case
• alleging attorney husband’s failure to disclose forthcoming settlement which would yield fee in excess of $200 million and threats to render his law practice worthless if wife sought an appraisal prevented wife from presenting meritorious claim
• alleging attorney husband’s failure to disclose forthcoming settlement which would yield fee in excess of $200 million and threats to render his law practice worthless if wife sought an appraisal prevented wife from presenting meritorious claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ramsey v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2008-01-16· cited 28×
• Nu-Way Energy Corporation v. Delp
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2006-09-06· cited 22×
• Gavrilis v. Gavrilis
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2005-06-09· cited 12×
• Miller v. Ludeman
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2004-07-15· cited 9×
• Nu-Way Energy Corporation v. Billy R. Delp, Jr.
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2006-09-06
• Rodney Pat Ramsey v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2008-01-16
• Melvin R. Hassell v. John C. Wilhite
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2005-09-29
• in the Interest of F.M.B. and P.W.B., Children
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2014-01-09
• in Re Ernesto Carrillo and Texas LPG Storage Company
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2015-04-09
• Ralph David Johnson v. Greunepointe 1 Kerens, LLC
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2020-05-07
• Marco Antonio Arrambide v. Maria Lourdes Barrera Arrambide
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2022-05-26
• Shamar D. Bradley v. Texas Office of the Attorney General and Texas Department of Information Resources
  Tex. App. Ct., 15th Dist.· 2025-11-17

Cites

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

• Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1985-05-01· cited 7,748×
• Gibbs v. General Motors Corporation
  Texas Supreme Court· 1970-02-11· cited 1,504×
• Randall's Food Markets, Inc. v. Johnson
  Texas Supreme Court· 1995-01-12· cited 1,496×
• Montgomery v. Kennedy
  Texas Supreme Court· 1984-04-18· cited 1,052×
• Star-Telegram, Inc. v. Doe
  Texas Supreme Court· 1996-03-07· cited 986×
• Amstadt v. United States Brass Corp.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1996-05-10· cited 879×
• Alexander v. Hagedorn
  Texas Supreme Court· 1950-02-01· cited 511×
• Baker v. Goldsmith
  Texas Supreme Court· 1979-05-23· cited 469×
• Wornick Co. v. Casas
  Texas Supreme Court· 1993-06-30· cited 466×
• Triton Oil & Gas Corp. v. Marine Contractors and Supply, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1982-11-03· cited 310×
• Martin v. Martin, Martin & Richards, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1999-04-22· cited 255×
• Tice v. City of Pasadena
  Texas Supreme Court· 1989-03-29· cited 166×
• Jaubert v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-04-10· cited 160×
• Templeton v. Dreiss
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1998-01-21· cited 102×
• Baxter v. Ruddle
  Texas Supreme Court· 1990-09-06· cited 98×
• Beck v. Beck
  Texas Supreme Court· 1989-06-07· cited 65×
• Rathmell v. Morrison
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1987-03-26· cited 61×
• Ortega v. First RepublicBank Fort Worth, N.A.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1990-02-28· cited 54×
• Elliott v. Elliott
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2000-06-29· cited 45×
• Markham v. Diversified Land & Exploration Co.
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1998-08-31· cited 33×