State v. Shoppers World, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• if statute omits necessary element, court to construe statute to give effect to legislative intent
• if statute omits necessary element, court to construe statute to give effect to legislative intent
• statute must not be given the one of two reasonable interpretations which will render it unconstitutional
• “[C]ourts of equity will take jurisdiction to enjoin enforcement of penal laws only in exceptional situations, thus leaving those laws to be interpreted through the criminal trial process whenever possible.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Ex Parte Granviel
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-02-01· cited 401×
• Ely v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-07-03· cited 329×
• Pennington v. Singleton
  Texas Supreme Court· 1980-09-12· cited 279×
• Texas Liquor Control Board v. Canyon Creek Land Corp.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1970-07-08· cited 182×
• State Ex Rel. Grimes County Taxpayers Ass'n v. Texas Municipal Power Agency
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1978-03-02· cited 103×
• Minton v. Frank
  Texas Supreme Court· 1976-10-13· cited 98×
• James v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-04-26· cited 80×
• Passel v. Fort Worth Independent School District
  Texas Supreme Court· 1969-04-16· cited 79×
• Crum & Forster, Inc. v. Monsanto Co.
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1994-10-18· cited 65×
• In Re Johnson
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1977-06-30· cited 60×
• State v. Spartan's Industries, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1969-11-05· cited 56×
• Ex Parte Schroeter
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-11-26· cited 45×
• Marcus Joseph Roper v. Katherine Elizabeth Jolliffe
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2015-10-09· cited 45×
• Risk Managers International, Inc. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1993-08-25· cited 42×
• Ex Parte Hayward
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-04-23· cited 40×
• State Ex Rel. Vance v. Hatten
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-05-28· cited 40×
• State v. Kaiser
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1992-03-18· cited 37×
• Leach v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1968-05-15· cited 28×
• Wojcik v. Wesolick
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2003-01-16· cited 28×
• Harris County Appraisal District v. United Investors Realty Trust
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2001-06-14· cited 26×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. Interstate Commerce Commission
  Supreme Court· 1911-05-29· cited 112×
• McKinney v. Blankenship
  Texas Supreme Court· 1955-10-12· cited 94×
• Crouch v. Craik
  Texas Supreme Court· 1963-06-12· cited 58×
• Gann v. Keith
  Texas Supreme Court· 1952-12-03· cited 22×
• Sweeny Hospital District v. Carr
  Texas Supreme Court· 1964-04-22· cited 21×
• Armendiaz v. Stillman
  Texas Supreme Court· 1881-03-31· cited 17×
• Shoppers World, Inc. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1963-10-30· cited 13×
• Harvey v. Priest
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1963-03-11· cited 12×
• Ex Parte Wilson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1964-01-15· cited 10×
• In Re Tschoepe
  S.D. Texas· 1936-02-01· cited 8×