State 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 that the defendant who owned the premises could discharge its duty by “either warning the plaintiff or making the premises reasonably safe”
• holding that a premises owner can discharge its duty by making the property safe or by warning
• holding that landowner “had a duty to warn or make safe, but not both”
• holding that landowner “had a duty to warn or make safe, but not both”
• holding that landowner “had a duty to warn or make safe, but not both”
• instructing jury in disjunctive, rather than conjunctive, regarding grounds of liability, harmless error when one ground undisputed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Del Lago Partners, Inc. v. Smith
  Texas Supreme Court· 2010-04-02· cited 485×
• Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Miller
  Texas Supreme Court· 2003-03-27· cited 316×
• Randy Austin v. Kroger Texas, L.P.
  Texas Supreme Court· 2015-06-15· cited 290×
• Mellon Mortgage Co. v. Holder
  Texas Supreme Court· 1999-12-02· cited 239×
• General Electric Co. v. Moritz
  Texas Supreme Court· 2008-06-13· cited 178×
• Knox v. Taylor
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1999-04-08· cited 120×
• Mayer Ex Rel. Mayer v. Willowbrook Plaza Ltd. Partnership
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2009-02-19· cited 88×
• TXI Operations, L.P. v. Perry
  Texas Supreme Court· 2009-02-27· cited 84×
• Texas Department of Transportation v. York
  Texas Supreme Court· 2009-05-22· cited 76×
• Reyes v. City of Laredo
  Texas Supreme Court· 2010-12-03· cited 74×
• Reliable Consultants, Inc. v. Jaquez
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2000-07-27· cited 72×
• Thompson v. City of Corsicana Housing Authority
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2001-08-29· cited 68×
• American Industries Life Insurance Co. v. Ruvalcaba
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2002-01-10· cited 67×
• Holder v. Mellon Mortgage Co.
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1997-11-26· cited 47×
• Bill's Dollar Store, Inc. v. Bean
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2002-04-11· cited 42×
• Knorpp v. Hale
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1998-10-22· cited 38×
• Wigfall v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2004-04-15· cited 36×
• Corbin v. City of Keller
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1999-08-05· cited 35×
• Palais Royal, Inc. v. Gunnels
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1998-09-02· cited 24×
• City of El Paso v. Viel
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-06-30· cited 23×

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State Department of Highways & Public Transportation v. Payne
  Texas Supreme Court· 1992-12-22· cited 1,108×
• State v. Williams
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 1996-10-18· cited 17×
• Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1986-09-10· cited 7×