Renfro v. Shropshire

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the selection of a county officer’s personnel is not “county business” and thus not subject to the commissioners court’s oversight
• stating that the selection of a county officer's personnel is not \county business\ and thus not subject to the commissioners court's oversight
• county clerks enjoy unfettered discretion in hiring and firing their employees

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Guynes v. Galveston County
  Texas Supreme Court· 1993-10-27· cited 218×
• Colorado County, Texas, R.H. \curly\ Wied, in His Official & Individual Capacity v. Marc Staff
  Texas Supreme Court· 2017-02-03· cited 80×
• Abbott v. Pollock
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1997-07-03· cited 75×
• Garcia v. Reeves County, Tex.
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-09-19· cited 46×
• White v. Eastland County
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1999-11-10· cited 26×
• Cascos v. Cameron County Attorney
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2010-09-02· cited 21×
• Louisiana-Pacific Corp. v. Newton County
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2004-09-23· cited 14×
• Zimmelman v. Harris County
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1991-09-12· cited 13×
• Garza v. Deaf Smith County
  N.D. Texas· 1985-03-18· cited 1×
• Moreno v. Barrera
  S.D. Texas· 1995-01-26· cited 1×
• Laurin Currie v. Travis County, Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1995-08-16
• Unnamed case
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1997-05-15
• Burnet County Sheriff's Department and Burnet County, Texas v. Zarina Carlisle
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2001-01-11
• Louisiana-Pacific Corporation v. Newton County and Truman Dougharty, County Judge
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2004-09-23
• in Re: Cameron County Judge Carlos Cascos
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2010-07-15
• Opinion No.
  Texas Attorney General Reports· 1988-08-26
• Opinion No.
  Texas Attorney General Reports· 1983-12-29
• Opinion No.
  Texas Attorney General Reports· 2005-08-19
• Opinion No.
  Texas Attorney General Reports· 2005-05-06
• Opinion No.
  Texas Attorney General Reports· 1982-02-03

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Board of Water Eng of State v. Cty of San Antonio
  Texas Supreme Court· 1955-10-26· cited 209×
• Martinez v. Delta Brands, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1974-11-06· cited 153×
• California Products, Inc. v. Puretex Lemon Juice, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1960-03-23· cited 130×
• Brown v. Frontier Theatres, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1963-06-26· cited 129×
• Hill Farm, Inc. v. Hill County
  Texas Supreme Court· 1969-01-15· cited 73×
• Gano v. Palo Pinto County
  Texas Supreme Court· 1888-06-01· cited 63×
• Anderson v. McRae
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1973-04-24· cited 58×
• Wilson v. County of Calhoun
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1972-11-30· cited 50×
• Hill Farm, Inc. v. Hill County
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1968-02-21· cited 45×
• Eastex Wildlife Conservation Ass'n v. JASPER, ETC.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1970-02-05· cited 44×
• Tarrant County v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1935-02-22· cited 35×
• Starr County v. Guerra
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1956-12-05· cited 35×
• Southern Traffic Bureau v. Thompson
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1950-06-21· cited 34×
• Rodgers v. County of Taylor
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1963-02-15· cited 29×
• Cowan v. Cowan
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1952-10-27· cited 23×
• State v. Margolis
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1969-03-26· cited 17×
• Parks v. Francis
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1947-05-02· cited 17×
• Bean v. Town of Vidor
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1969-04-03· cited 11×
• Byrd v. Fard
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1976-07-22· cited 3×