Thomas v. Allen

How courts have described this case

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

• Texas courts may not refuse to hear valid section 1983 claims based on sovereign immunity
• Texas courts may not refuse to hear valid section 1983 claims based on sovereign immunity
• state court may not deny a federal right when the parties and controversy are properly before it in the absence of a “valid excuse”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Texas Department of Public Safety v. Petta
  Texas Supreme Court· 2001-06-07· cited 353×
• City of New Braunfels, Texas v. Carowest Land, Ltd.
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2014-04-30· cited 50×
• Wright v. Ector County Independent School District
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1994-01-12· cited 20×
• City of Dallas v. Saucedo-Falls
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2008-11-18· cited 16×
• Sauls v. Montgomery County
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2000-05-18· cited 15×
• City of Grand Prairie v. Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1993-10-21· cited 8×
• Unnamed case
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2009-10-08
• Unnamed case
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2009-10-08
• Unnamed case
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2009-10-08
• Unnamed case
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2003-08-14
• Unnamed case
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2003-08-14
• Brazos County, Christopher C. Kirk, Sheriff, Brazos County, Texas v. John Ray Tullous
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2004-07-07
• Wayne Allen Stuckey v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2008-08-06
• Billy Rell Miles v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2004-08-12
• Nueces County, Texas, (Former) Commissioner Roy Hinojosa and (Former) County Judge Richard Borchard v. Mary Thornton
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2004-03-04
• Luzelma Campos, Betty Jo Gonzalez, and Misty Valero v. Nueces County
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2005-04-14
• RWayne Johnson v. Gerald and Vicki Cornelius
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2011-09-28
• Dos Republicas Coal Partnership v. David Saucedo, as Floodplain Administrator and County Judge of the Maverick County Commissioners Court, and the Maverick County Commissioners Court
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2015-04-02
• Diana Fay Bass v. Richard H. Bass
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2015-12-21
• Layne Walker v. Stephen Hartman
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2020-03-26

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Daniels v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 1986-01-21· cited 7,676×
• Parratt v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 1981-05-18· cited 6,693×
• Maine v. Thiboutot
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 1,890×
• Martinez v. California
  Supreme Court· 1980-03-03· cited 1,332×
• Howlett Ex Rel. Howlett v. Rose
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-11· cited 1,197×
• Testa v. Katt
  Supreme Court· 1947-03-10· cited 481×
• Herb v. Pitcairn
  Supreme Court· 1945-02-05· cited 282×
• Douglas v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
  Supreme Court· 1929-05-13· cited 209×
• Missouri Ex Rel. Southern Railway Co. v. Mayfield
  Supreme Court· 1950-11-06· cited 172×
• Myers v. Adams
  Texas Supreme Court· 1987-05-06· cited 18×
• Thomas v. Allen
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1992-01-30· cited 1×